From the course: Creative Exercises to Spark Original Thinking

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Next steps: Change it up

Next steps: Change it up

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Next steps: Change it up

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- The next time you start to feel blocked creatively and you just can't seem to come up with anything original, change it up a little bit and do something to get yourself out of your head for a while. Rather than striving so hard for an outcome, try experimenting instead. To spark original thinking and reignite inspiration, sometimes you have to choose grit and get out of your comfort zone. This can be scary, but it's the only way to grow the bravery to generate new expressive possibilities. My favorite poet, Mary Oliver, wrote, "The most regretful people on earth are those "who felt the call to creative work, "who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, "and gave it neither power nor time." I agree. If you give yourself the time to explore your creative potential, its power will manifest in so many aspects of your life. Write on a mango, spill some ink, make a drawing with a friend. These small acts of…

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