Since the appearance of the great monsters of the arts, there has been a recurring theme and focus of discussion in public opinion. From the most brainy theorists to the practitioners of art in any of its variants, a question has always remained in the air and without finding a convincing answer: Is the artist born or made? Could any average person become a Mozart for example if they received specific stimuli or followed a specific routine?
Whatever your conception and your opinion, surely you recognize the following habits as positive influences for the development of your innate creative gifts. In this post I would like to introduce you to some routines that can favor you and help you gain inspiration. Actually what it is about is create ourselves internally ourselves (on a psychological level) and make us stronger and able to face any challenge and generate interesting ideas.
- Ask yourself questions, always try to keep curiosity alive within you: We will never be able to understand everything that surrounds us and it is important that we assume it. Once we understand this, an infinite range of possibilities, mysteries and unexplored terrain opens up. As tempting as it may be, try to run away from comfort, from conventionality.
- Do you know the world in which you move? You'll never really get to know him at all: This of course extends to captivating artists and works. We will never get to see all the artists that make up our world and that is simply wonderful. Do not stop looking for sources of inspiration, figures that motivate you and suggest new ways of perceiving art.
- Tolerance is the best fertilizer for great ideas. Sometimes our rational thinking and our mind are the worst enemy. Most of us follow patterns and harbor certain prejudices against some type of people, beliefs or ways of understanding things. Identifying these beliefs and tendencies to label everything that is presented around us is the first step to be able to eliminate them and open our minds a little more.
- Try to stay in tune with your surroundings, with nature. The word inspired comes from In spirit, or what is the same, being in contact with our soul, our spirit or our inner world if we prefer to call it that. In many cases a quiet walk through nature in its own silence and contemplative state helps a lot. Looking inside never hurts and it will help us create real works with a credible emotional charge.
- Archive, store and create your own inventory of wonders: You will discover works, artists, phrases, ideas, suggestions, people who seem like a source of beauty or inspiration. Try to archive and store all these elements that suggest something to you. A kind of creative journal that you can turn to knowing that you will find little seeds to help you create new projects.
- Janic thought: It consists of a technique to create or envision new concepts and works from the association of contrary elements. If we associate opposing figures or that have nothing to do with one another and we turn it around, we can obtain a groundbreaking and powerful concept.
- Try to move between contrasts, enrich your social environment and fill it with diversity. There is something called the comfort zone. As its name suggests, it is very comfortable, but limiting. By remaining pigeonholed in an environment or routine we miss out on many things, we dwarf our world, and we become much poorer as creatives.
- Utopia? Erase that concept from your mind now. Of course you must work on self-censorship. Especially when working on techniques or exercises such as brainstorming there is a tendency for 90% of individuals to reserve their own ideas because they suddenly seem "silly" or think that others will tell them "it's stupid". Try to gain confidence in yourself and your criteria. This is basic.
Excellent work.