A step toward unleashing your creativity …

One of the greatest longings of a truly creative person is the “setting free” of their mind. That’s because they know they express the tiniest sliver of creativity that floods their thoughts.

So, let’s take A STEP toward maximizing acting on your creativity, first by looking at an old but simple truth, and adding to it a reality, to learn something about what happens to our creative flow.

First, on multiple occasions previously, I’ve written about a simple fact of human behavior which is important for us to grasp. It’s this: Our thoughts create our emotions. The combination of our thoughts and emotions create our behavior.

We could state it like this: Thoughts + Emotions = Behavior.

Now, let’s add to this a common reality: Creative Thinking + Acting Conventionally = Ordinary.

The truly creative person is not striving to achieve the ordinary; ordinary is a contradiction to creativity. So this reality helps us understand that something interrupts what happens between creative thought and action (behavior).

What lies between thought and action? Emotions! So it’s our emotions that keep us from acting on our greatest creativity, right?

No.

Remember where emotions come from? Our thoughts. So here’s what happens:

• • Creative thinking is flowing like the mighty Amazon through your mind …
  • … those creative thoughts generate emotions that accessorize the creative thoughts; you may be on an “emotional high” or very excited as the creativity flows …
  • … but instead of immediately acting on the combination of thoughts and emotions, you take the creative thoughts around for another cycle of thinking …
  • … this time, you allow some irrational thinking to blend with the creativity; now doubt, fear, and other types of irrational thought start to rise up over the creative ideas …
  • … this strain of irrational thinking generates emotions which act like a wet blanket on your ideas …
  • … and what once was a great idea is marginalized and, finally, snuffed out.

Knowing this, what is one step we can take toward maximizing creativity? Minimize the gap between the origination of creative thought and taking the first act toward actualizing the creative idea.

This will help to minimize allowing irrational thinking into your creative thought processes. The wider the gap between origination of thought and taking some kind of action on the thought, the greater the possibility of acting conventionally instead of creatively.

Some people simply call this “over thinking an idea.” That’s how the bulk of creativity gets killed.

The next time you sit down to intentionally focus on “generating creativity,” be prepared to act as part of the process. You should be able to boost your creative output by doing so.

Scotty