Resource Library
(i) Start Here!
(ii) Creativity
(iii) Creative Thinking and Innovation
(v) Procrastination vs. Marination
(iv) Neuroscience and Psychology
The ‘Third Layer’ process itself
The Creative Foundation and Creativity Pyramid
Creativity = Chaos, Order, and the Salience Network
The Salience Network loves to come out in the shower, on a hiking trail, first thing in the morning, on a smoke break, while washing the dishes — anywhere but wherever the Central Executive Network is watching with its scary hyper-focus on productivity and competence. (Or where the Default Mode Network is choreographing an interpretative dance with scarves of the wildebeest migration … bless its DMN heart.)
Gravity problems vs tangible and intangible issues
When it comes to our creativity, what’s a gravity problem, what’s a tangible barrier, and what’s an intangible block?
Creative avoidance
Creative freezing requires awareness, kindness and gentle acknowledgement. Creative avoidance requires a swift kick in the pants. How do you know which one you’re doing?
Creative freezing (aka writer’s block, creativity black hole, etc)
Think of your stagnating creativity as the frozen pizza inside your brain’s freezer. And then the hot oven is your own self-awareness.
Writing: Self-awareness vs rumination
Writing can improve your mental health, but the writing should elicit self-awareness (not rumination).
Perfectionism is death
Perfectionism is stagnation, fear and death. And nothing is a perfect 10 anyway.
Elongating time: why creativity needs procrastination and inefficiency
Next time someone asks if you’re bored or procrastinating, tell them you’re elongating time for more creativity.
Interoception’s influence on creativity, Pt I
Want to work on your creativity? Listen to your body through interoception.
Procrastination vs marination
“Writing is hard; you just sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” When are you procrastinating, when are you marinating, and how can you know the difference?
Start where you are. Start where they are.
Creativity is hard. So start where you are, not where the world expects you to be.