Balzac fasting: as the famous creators sought inspiration

Learn how to Salvador Dali, Stravinsky, Honore de Balzac, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have set their brains to find new ideas.

The well-known legend says that the law of universal gravitation was discovered by Isaac Newton when observing the fall of an apple from a tree branch. But not everyone is quite a contemplation of phenomena and unvarnished nature to find inspiration, to catch an idea or a discovery. History knows many examples when the creative minds burned his talent for the use of both legal and banned poisons. And all because of that inspiration is like a capricious lady: it cavils no end to her hard to please. But how to get out of the cerebral stupor? Where to draw ideas? In this article you will learn about the unusual way in which the well-known creative people muse grabbing the hem.

Salvador Dali

The famous Spanish painter was a champion for a nap! But fall asleep, he did not like just so. Dali sat in a chair with a heavy key in his hand, and at his feet put a metal plate. As sleep his hands weakened, and the key fell down. Ringing noise impact woke artist. Short seconds of unconsciousness give master new ideas.

This trick is quite a scientific explanation. Gipnagogiya - borderline state between sleeping and waking, in which the human mind produces bright images, unexpected patterns and thoughts. A person having auditory and visual hallucinations. Expanding the boundaries of the subconscious, the brain directing streams of associations, visions and ideas.

Over the centuries many creative personalities were inspired way, balancing on the verge of waking and sleeping.

Igor Stravinsky

One of the greatest representatives of world musical culture said that his day began with physical exercises, which he learned from the Hungarian gymnast. The apotheosis of the action was headstand.

It turns out that an inverted posture improves blood circulation and detoxification of the adrenal glands. According to Igor Fedorovich practiced load helped him clear the mind to new ideas.

Honore de Balzac

A well-known French writer preached "brutal" method of coffee consumption, "a real man" - an extremely strong drink on an empty stomach.

Say, Balzac himself drank up to 50 cups of coffee per day, with a time of two to three cups. And if that was not enough, in the course were milled grains.

It is not known whether contained a thick black liquid any supplements, but after its infusion into the head of the creator "ideas began to march as a vast army battalions on the legendary battlefield. Memories flew up like flags up, the cavalry of metaphor passed at a gallop, the artillery of logic push forward like a bullet... "

APB amount of coffee helped master the ink pen is set to work and begin to shift thoughts on paper.

Yoshiro Nakamatsu

Google assigns sverhproduktivnomu Japanese inventor creating floppies, although some other sources say otherwise. Whatever it was, in a portfolio Yoshiro has more than 3000 patents, which shows the great talent of the Asian.

That fills his mind with new ideas? The proximity of death. According Nakamatsu, he practices the diving experience and expectation of oxygen starvation. Brilliant spark can come to him for just half a second before his death.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

The creators of one of the longest-running, successful and popular cartoons do not see their work without panic element for adults South park. Unlike other shows that the script write, do animation, voice acting and assembly in the months and weeks before the broadcast, the episodes of "South Park" are sent to the channel in a few hours before the scheduled time exit. Only in this way the authors of the series are able to keep all the sights of the world's news and events, and making fun of them in hot pursuit.

"Panic - is an integral part of the creative process that leads to spontaneous brainstorming and birth topical jokes."

conclusion

Of course, it is not necessary to practice themselves and offer other search methods described ideas. Some of them are fraught with a minimum of disruption of the deadline, and at best - premature departure into another world. Even "harmless" coffee consumption led to a deterioration of health of Honore de Balzac and the great writer was forced to abandon it.

And how do you inspire and find new ideas?