Tips and ideas to help your creative process: The Uncanny Creativity Podcast. Make practice more fun and change your perspective. Learn how to have more good ideas. Figure out how to finish what you started. Face the fear of failure. Plan and execute your projects from start to finish.
Making art often means getting out of the comfort zone. Alan Henry of Lifehacker explains the science of breaking out of your comfort zone: Routine an...
Try this: Stop Multitasking.Focus on one task at a time. One aspect of one task.Multitasking even hurts well-practiced habits. A 1990's experiment on ...
I previously read the book Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon. I'm working on reviewing the followup book "Show Your Work. Inspired by Kleon's discu...
Try this: Imagine you’re a 7 year old. Children playing is filled with curiosity. They haven’t learned the stock responses of adults. Ask yourself wha...
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” Albert Einstein Make a game of it. A study at MIT Sloan found that games helped participants come up with m...
Take a new perspective on your creative process. This episode presents some of my favorite quotes from the book Think Like A Freak by Steven D. Levitt...
Try this: Stop doing something How do we make time for art? In his book Getting Things Done, David Allen recommends we ask ourselves if we really have...
Optimism helps us be more creative. We can learn to explain our lives in positive ways. We can definitely use his concepts to have a better creative p...
Walking boosts creativity in real time and shortly after. Following being seated, participants scored higher on creativity tests. Walking outside had ...
What we think will happen is not always what happens. Part of being an artist is accepting that being wrong is okay. It’s part of the fun of our work!...