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The ‘Third Layer’ process itself
The Creative Foundation and Creativity Pyramid
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APLOMB: Mnemonic creativity
A) Awareness: Become aware of who you are and what you like, P) Prompts: Triangulate that with some outside prompts, L) Let whatever messiness flow that your brain needs to get creative, O) Open to others’ messiness, too, M) Marinate: Creativity desperately needs elongated time, and then finally B) Blueprint: Use a Creativity Notebook to write down what you’ve learned so you don’t have to keep it in your already overwhelmed brain.
Creativity and Concept Cells
Frustration, boredom, envy, desperation and deadlines are probably bigger drivers of creativity than any other emotion or prompt. I’ve published over a million words in my career, and deadlines were responsible for 999,000 of them.
The creativity of traveling locally
In many ways, travel in a foreign locale is easier. You don't have to do anything, the creativity and newness is everywhere. Travel nearby -- especially to places not over-popularized -- *takes* creativity. This is one of the reasons I loved being a guidebook author. You can't cover a place if you look at it on the first layer only. What's the second layer? How about the third? What can I learn about my own backyard that's different to my preconceptions?
