Creative Think Tank
Some ideas come to us fully formed and just ready to be put into a creative piece of work or project.
More often though, we have fragments of ideas, that with time and attention can evolve into rich and wonderful forms. They might be a name for a new character in the novel you're writing, a colour to begin from in your next painting or a simple melody you could use in a new musical composition.
The speed and frequency of these thoughts and ideas though can be overwhelming and as a result many of the best ones can get lost in the maelstrom.
By having a "Creative Think Tank", we can let some of these ideas and thoughts have an incubation period and give them the chance to evolve into more full and complete ideas.
What could you use as your "Creative Think Tank"?
Maybe a notice board or whiteboard and post-it notes? Carry a notebook or pad of post-it notes around with you, then each time you have an idea, jot it down. When you get home, stick it up on your Creative Think Tank board and let it grow a little. This way you can also move ideas around and connect them, or add parts with new post-it notes. Or use different colour post-it notes for different projects or different types of idea.
Or maybe a simple notebook would work well for you? Carry it around with you and write down ideas as they come to you. You could develop ways of storing different types of ideas in different sections of the book. Or buy one of those multi-coloured pens and write each different type of idea in a different colour.
Or maybe an actual tank would work better for you? Get hold of an old fish tank and stick the ideas inside the glass or just throw them in and let them smoulder a little. When you need a new idea, just pluck a piece of paper from your tank and use that as a point to develop from.
Experiment and play around, see which works best for you, or invent a Creative Think Tank of your own.
Whichever you use, finding one that works for you can mean having a constant stream of interesting ideas and never letting a potentially amazing one slip away silently ever again!
More often though, we have fragments of ideas, that with time and attention can evolve into rich and wonderful forms. They might be a name for a new character in the novel you're writing, a colour to begin from in your next painting or a simple melody you could use in a new musical composition.
The speed and frequency of these thoughts and ideas though can be overwhelming and as a result many of the best ones can get lost in the maelstrom.
By having a "Creative Think Tank", we can let some of these ideas and thoughts have an incubation period and give them the chance to evolve into more full and complete ideas.
What could you use as your "Creative Think Tank"?
Maybe a notice board or whiteboard and post-it notes? Carry a notebook or pad of post-it notes around with you, then each time you have an idea, jot it down. When you get home, stick it up on your Creative Think Tank board and let it grow a little. This way you can also move ideas around and connect them, or add parts with new post-it notes. Or use different colour post-it notes for different projects or different types of idea.
Or maybe a simple notebook would work well for you? Carry it around with you and write down ideas as they come to you. You could develop ways of storing different types of ideas in different sections of the book. Or buy one of those multi-coloured pens and write each different type of idea in a different colour.
Or maybe an actual tank would work better for you? Get hold of an old fish tank and stick the ideas inside the glass or just throw them in and let them smoulder a little. When you need a new idea, just pluck a piece of paper from your tank and use that as a point to develop from.
Experiment and play around, see which works best for you, or invent a Creative Think Tank of your own.
Whichever you use, finding one that works for you can mean having a constant stream of interesting ideas and never letting a potentially amazing one slip away silently ever again!
posted by Dan at 5:23 PM
As a Creativity Coach I work with people who are frustrated that their creative talents are underused. 
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