The inner Star Wars nerd in me wants to punch a hole through the wall.
Mainly cause I wish I had the force as a power since I was kid watching Star wars…
But today I’m talking about force but for creating cause that’s where people seem to get stuck
From writers block. To not knowing what to paint. Or how to frame their photos or come up with a hook for their new music.
This whole creative endeavour seems to grab people around the neck and strangle them to submission and when it comes to producing for deadlines. They are like a deer standing in front of a 18 tonne truck about to end their existence…
Anywho…
Forced creativity Vs Flow state creativity.
The names tell you everything there is to know.
The majority of creatives live for the deadline and beg the muse to help them out. Hours before they need to produce they are stuck forcing out something to create.
This is not good. This is anxiety inducing and can honestly drive you mad. You don’t ever want to be here.
Flow state in the other hand is having an abundance of ideas that you can riff off of at any given time.
There’s no Yoda-based-voodoo-magic ancient jedi teaching that’ll help you to get to this point.
It’s just you NEED to get to a point where you are disciplined enough to come up with 100s of ideas and stack them together. That way at any given moment. Deadline or not. You can go through your tome of ideas and pick something out that you’re feeling, and create a piece of content.
Instead of relying on creativity and forcing yourself to make something. You have so many ideas knocking about that you can turn them down for that point in time and come back to it later when you’re in the mood.
That’s the type of state you want to get into.
A flow state beats a forced state 10/10 times.
Jedi-mind-trick free.
Now if you want a continuation of the HOW TO of this.
Hit reply and tell me.
If not. That’s cool. I’m gonna go head out into the wild…
Stephen Walker.