How does the brain suppresses our ideas and how to prevent it

Share a story with you Seyter Courtney (Courtney Seiter). First of all, this post will be useful for writing to people, journalists, copywriters, etc... However, it will be interesting to anyone who has creative hobbies.

In my head a lot ideas. And for the most part this is where they remain.

In my mind. Where other people can not see them, can not get to know them and can not somehow affect them. Where they are safe. Where no one will be able to subject them to criticism.

I created something. Of course, some may say that I have done a great job. But this is only because they do not know what I did. For example, the post was in my head for a month, I pondered, and waited to find fault with every detail.

The most dangerous, the most breakthrough ideas easier to bury in his head. But this is wrong. They need to hold, fix as exhibits in the museum. They should be everywhere: in all your gadgets in notebooks, and just in pieces of paper that are always scattered on your desktop.

And while I feel creative, reveling in their ideas, they died a lonely death, because I did not do anything with them. They did not have a chance to bring into the world something new. Affect someone. Someone to light.

I was losing. I did not force myself to dig deeper and do not complicate their task. I lost a lot: I did not have feedback, I did not hear the criticism. I missed this chance - to discover something new, maybe even discover something new in itself.

I stopped before she could start.

It was not the best life I could give their ideas and herself.

So I decided to change everything. I decided to get rid of all that prevents me to implement their own ideas. I was for a list of the most common things that interfere implement my ideas. And today I want to share it with you.

The feeling of incompleteness

The most important thing that keeps us from the immediate implementation of our ideas to life - the feeling that something else was missing. It is not clear how to implement this idea, or do we need any examples.

My former editor called it "glimpses" - a spark of ideas when you feel that you are on the verge of something important. Sometimes you need time to form a full glimpse of this idea, but sometimes you need to combine several of these glimpses into one idea.

The main thing is that these glimpses are in need of your help. On the stage of development of the idea seem so helpless and incomplete that we can be very difficult to bring them to other people. What if your idea misunderstood or it will be completely hopeless?

How to fix it: This may seem paradoxical, but it is the embryonic state of the idea of ​​just the most suitable. This is the time to check out your idea. For example, write a post about it on social networks. And if there is a criticism, it is not scary, on the contrary, it will help you find weaknesses and dismiss this idea, if you feel that it is hopeless, and turn in the other direction.

Because it is so difficult

While I wrote most of his life, it was never given to me easily. Sometimes the necessary words are like themselves, but more often than necessary thought has to literally grind.

Sometimes I do not want this fight. Sometimes I just want to lie down and watch the show.

I hate to write. I love it when everything is already written.

Dorothy Parker

How to handle it: the best solution - just start. No matter where, no matter in what place, the main thing - just start. After I write the title, some sketches, or even just the first sentence, the process goes easier. More you can do this: set a goal - 20 minutes to devote only the text and nothing more. As a rule, this concentration plays in your favor, and the creative process begins to proceed much faster.

Because we have too much time is devoted to the ideas of others

I always loved to read. And now I continue to read a lot, this helps me e-book. I also read Twitter, RSS-tapes and printed newspapers.

When I read the good stuff that makes me happy.

But if I'm careless, the resulting material can constrain me to me it would seem that all ideas have long been known, and all the good that could have been written already written. It's like the impostor syndrome.

How to handle it: we must always read and get acquainted with the outstanding works of others. But we also need to create their own, albeit sometimes even on the basis of what has been created by someone else. Each of us must be responsible and must try to find an optimal balance between own and others' creativity. Let it inspire you, and makes you feel a lack of talent. In the end, everything - remix.

Because we are too busy with other things

Right now, as I type this sentence, I realize what this is really pathetic excuse. No doubt you, like any other person, there are a lot of cases at work and at home. But we always somehow find time for an important matter for us. We wake up early or stay up later. We can turn off the TV and stop wasting your time misspent.

We all have the same number of hours in a day, and only we can distribute them correctly - so that we could deal with the case, which will help us achieve our goals.

How to handle it: First I check your task list and figure out when I can write. Should not this problem in the discharge for the low priority? Very often, the schedule is so tight that the daily activities and work issues literally block the creative process. I can write on weekends or in the morning, before you check email.

If it turns out that I was actually too busy to put his idea into practice, there is nothing wrong with that, if I give it to someone else. In the end, sometimes to think not only about themselves but also about an idea that can be gone just like that.

Because we are distracted

From that moment on, I decided to write this article, and until such time as I really wrote it, was as follows: I a walk with the dog, had breakfast, I thought about what would be a new carpet I buy, I checked Twitter and read two articles. And this is not some antiproduktivny day would be my focus was on zero - this is my typical day.

We will always be distractions. This is a constant world in which we live.

How to handle it: I experimented with a lot of ideas and eventually came to the conclusion that man needed deadlines (set by someone, or set your own), then he will deal with the case more concentration.

I also try to understand the difference between a productive distraction (eg the walk with the dog - this action often leads to new ideas and thoughts) and involuntary distraction (continuous, often quite unnecessary and counterproductive monitoring Twitter and Facebook).

Because we are afraid

Finally we came to a large and important issue, which is often the basis for all the others.

The main reason that my ideas live only in my head, not in the outer world - I'm afraid. I'm afraid that they are not good enough. I'm afraid that they are not new. I'm afraid that they are not unique.

Oddly enough, many people find it easier to completely abandon the idea, bury it forever than accept the fact that an idea can fail and not produce the desired result.

Think for a moment: if in every case in life, we have approached with a similar spirit, we would never would not have started, and how much would be just simply missed. Risk - is what makes life interesting.

Fortunately, in our time, not necessarily to implement his idea very own - you can work in a team. Teamwork - a great way to constantly get feedback, to look at his idea someone else's eyes and see how other people. If you are unable to work as a team, try to find a competent person in the field to which you could seek advice.

How to handle it: Of course, it is very difficult to deduce the algorithm ready, but I'm trying, and the post - one of those attempts. Here are the rules I was able to bring to the moment:

• Do not take any one creative niche, Is engaged in creativity in general. My house now, for example, is dotted izrisoval sheets of paper, although I draw does not matter. But it normal. Set a goal - to spend as much time at work, even if everything goes right, and not the way you want it.
• Share their creativity with others. Previously, I would not press the button "Publish". And now you are reading this post. Show off your creative people, start with that, ask family members to evaluate your work, and then everything will go much easier.
• Suppose that you have time to clean thoughts. When your head is free from the affairs and concerns. It is at such moments come to us the best ideas. Walk the dog, cycling, just wandering alone.
• Give yourself permission to ask for help from others. There is nothing to be ashamed of, but I, like most people, it is a long road to go. When you are open to others, you will constantly get feedback and can improve their skills.

Of course, comfort zone - this is a great place, but if you really want to create something exciting, it is necessary to you from this very area to go out more often.

I hope that this post at least a little nudged you to to put their ideas into practice.

Or maybe you have your own ways in which you can stop hiding your ideas? It would be very interesting to read about them in the comments.