8 obstacles to creativity
Tips Motivation / / December 19, 2019
The fact that only smart people with high IQ can be creative - this is nonsense. As shown by recent studies, creativity does not depend directly on education. If we carry out the same tests, and adult children, the children would be much smarter adult uncles and aunts with vast experience and wealth of knowledge. I would say that all the knowledge and experience of the luggage in this case only in the way. Because children do not yet know about stupid prohibitions and regulations that have come up with some adults in order to control other adults. Their heads are still clean, and they are able to go beyond the standard three dimensions simply because they are not aware that this is impossible.
So what prevents many adults to reveal their full creative potential and become completely free?
As I said above, the adults, the Chinese pioneers - themselves create barriers themselves and overcome them afterwards. And during the creative process, trying to reconcile the irreconcilable and share what always comes in pairs.
Error №1. Create and evaluate at the same time
You can not drive the car in first gear and simultaneously back up. Likewise, you can not use two completely different types of thinking. Creation, creativity - this is the first transmission. A rating - is reversed.
Most people appreciate too much and too little to create. Creativity - is the generation of new ideas, it is a look into the future, taking into account the huge number of scenarios. A rating - a "bad" analysis and sorting of ideas and "good", "useful" and "useless". How do we know how much it will be useful to whom? What may seem like riding rationality and utility of one to the other can be a waste of time. And vice versa.
Error №2. Expert syndrome
Now around divorced so many "gurus" who share their secrets of success, that the eyes diverge. Listen to the advice of people who really achieved success, of course, necessary. But try them for themselves or their work without adaptation is not necessary. It's like the unconditional adherence to all the advice from books on psychology or magazines - sometimes works with the opposite result! Some guru in order to achieve its goal of doing what the experts, who are then asked for advice, saying that it will never work! But in the end it worked.
We can not answer for others, and others, no matter how clever, experienced and successful they may be, can not be responsible for the fact that their advice works at 100%. We are all different and the path to success at everyone.
Error №3. fear of failure
No one likes to be wrong. Mistakes - it's painful, unpleasant and sometimes they are too expensive. And this is one of the main obstacles on the way to new ideas and their realization. I would even say that this kind of barrier on the path from idea to reality. And if we try to avoid failure, at the same time we avoid and success. Unfortunately, I do not know a single person who would learn from the mistakes of others. But, if you follow all this theory is that it was a mistake for another, it may be very advantageous option for us. Therefore, we can only stop at last and afraid to try, try and try again.
Error №4. fear uncertainty
Most people prefer order to chaos and certainty unlimited number of options. Being creatures of logic, we feel much more confident when we follow certain proven rules and feel solid ground under their feet. If we do not understand what all could end, most likely, we do not take for it. Because immediately after the emergence of the idea, not having time to even form the main points, we are making it their own calculations of profitability, consistency and speed of payback.
There are people who are doing something, breaking all the rules, and at the same time achieve far greater success than those instructions should be clearly spelled out in the book. Not always the shortest path between two points - this line. Yes, on the one hand such a leap into the void - it's scary. But on the other hand... it is fascinating, a sense of courage and becomes curious, where are we still be landing? Try to make friends with the chaos inside yourself and if you do not bring it into subjection, at least to get the hand to snatch out unusual ideas.
Error №5. lack of trust
Very often we do not have enough confidence in ourselves, faith in our own strength and abilities. A slight feeling of fear of uncertainty - this is a normal reaction. But when it rolls over, we just are afraid to start something new. And here the most important thing is to understand that sometimes even the craziest ideas can be the most effective, and errors - this is only for the acquisition of the necessary work experience. And instead of having to divide the world into "possible" and "impossible", you will understand that everything can be divided into what you have already tried and that has yet to try.
Error №6. Other people's opinion
Even if you have an open mind and you will see hidden opportunities, other people around you can not see beyond their own noses. And they will try to convince you in the same. Some road to success paved with predictions of failure. It is not necessary to join with them in arguments and prove their case. The best thing you can do - is to succeed.
Error №7. The overabundance of information
This condition is called "Analysis Paralysis" - this is when you are trying to analyze every move, spend a huge the amount of time thinking about the problem, and eventually get so much information that is simply not able to process. Information for the brain - it's like food for the body. Too many hard to digest or even can not be absorbed.
Successful people know when to stop collecting information and proceed with the idea.
Error №8. Traps false restrictions
Ask the author of a great idea, and you'll get an answer in words. Ask the same question of the designer, and you get an answer in a visual form. We are all a product of our experience. And our limited voluntary. They are false boundaries that we set ourselves. Because we feel comfortable within the established framework. And the only way to find out what we can do - is to go beyond the comfortable work (or life). What today seems simply impossible, tomorrow may seem exciting and interesting.