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Many old age ago now, I was running and had an penetration that became the foundation of what I name The Science of Originality. I had been picture that day. During the run, I wondered about what the enactment of picture gives me. Why make I paint? It came to me that picture conveys me vision. That may look obvious. But sometimes the obvious things are also profound. This was to me and got me to thinking, still on the run, about the other mass media that I work with. If picture conveys vision, what makes writing bring?

That took a small while - but not too long - for me to calculate out. I was still on the run. A good clip to have got thoughts is on such as a thing as a run, where the blood is pumping hard. The encephalon and its nerve cells love that difficult pumping blood.

Writing conveys me essence. That do sense, right? The best authorship is writing that offerings substance: essence. The best pictures are pictures that offering vision: that explosive, flashy, and fulgurant energy. Paintings don't have got to literally be jazzy and flashy. I trust you cognize what I intend here. A good picture vibrates with life. A good book (not the good book, although we could include that) can vibrate with life. But what we desire more than out of a book is pure substance: essence. Just the facts, Ma'am.

Then I thought about my music. I was still running. By this clip I was about to turn around on my tally and caput back home. I still had plenty of clip to believe these ideas about creativeness and art.

Music conveys me flow. Actually, I knew right off that music brought flow. I knew that before I hit on authorship bringing me essence. But I held off the thought. It went like this:

Painting conveys essence. Wow! What makes writing bring? Oh, yeah, music conveys me flow. What makes writing bring? Writing brings...essence! Wow! Oh, and music, it conveys flow... Yeah, that's right. Music, flow, yeah...

So I actually realized that music gave me flowing before I hit on authorship bringing essence. Later, though, as I contemplated my findings, I realized that the originative procedure moves from vision to kernel to flow, and then back to vision again to reiterate the process. I came to name this fantastic procedure that, for me, beautifully described the phases of the originative process, as VEF: vision, essence, and flow.

You get with a vision. You give that vision substance. Thus, you travel to essence. As your vision dialogues with the matter you discover, you travel to flow, the Communion of vision, essence, and the 3rd piece, the human relationship or labor union of vision and essence, which is flow.

What I believe is especially neat about this narrative is that my full philosophy, which I name the Science of Originality, all began with a vision about vision. I love that.

What do originative end product creative? How make you acknowledge creativeness when you see it or hear it? Imagination, originality and inspiration all come up into the mix, for sure, but makes creativeness have got to be an illustration of something utterly new? I don't believe that it does... some of the most strikingly originative plant bring forth their impact by offering a new perspective. They light the previously unseeable in a thought-provoking new way.

It's all too easy to acquire stuck in a same-old same-old pattern of thought about life and how you dwell it. Restrictive wonts have got a wont of sneaking up on you quieter than a mouse in silk slippers. But if you truly desire to dwell your life creatively, to delight in the joyousnesses of eccentricity and to bring forth originative end product in a sustainable way, you necessitate to maintain your eyes, ears and encephalon actively on the qui vive for new viewpoints.

Granting yourself the chance of a fresh position on a regular footing is cardinal to your originative health. In experimenting with a fresh angle, you're far more than likely to come up up with some novel inquiries for yourself, along with some engagingly originative replies too.

The most straightforward manner to acquire a different perspective...
...is to travel somewhere that's not portion of your normal, mundane routine. By placement yourself physically and geographically in a different place, you can access different mental and emotional positions too.

This is often what haps when you travel on vacation – after a twenty-four hours or two you get to see the challenges you had when you left place as somehow separate from your vacation self. The physical distance enables you to derive an emotional distance too. And with the emotional distance come up ups the chance to see the whole state of affairs from a new mental perspective, offering the chance to come up with innovatively different possibilities. Albert Einstein famously stated that you can never work out a job on the degree on which it was created. Similarly you often can't work out jobs in the topographic point in which they were created.

New milieu supply fertile land for originative thoughts too, of course. Anywhere that open ups you to a sense of new experience will acquire your creativeness sparking. And it doesn't only go on in those beautiful, relaxing topographic points where you can bask brooding time, although the chance is distinctly pleasant! More often still, the originative trips come up thick and fast when you're outside of your comfortableness zone. So don't shrivel from the scarily unknown... seek embracing it as a natural creativeness chance instead!

Here's a surprisingly effectual and very simple exercising you can experimentation with...
Sometime in the adjacent few years when you're in your auto on an mundane journeying that you cognize well, halt the auto in the center of the route. Stop somewhere you wouldn't normally stop, making certain it's a safe topographic point to park the car, of course! Then acquire out of your auto and look. Really look. What make you detect from your new, stationary perspective? And what haps when you convey more than than just your sense of sight into play? Use all your senses. Now what make you notice?

So... granting yourself a fresh position can be engineered very simply in an environmental context. All that's required is that you either place yourself somewhere entirely new, somewhere you've never put ft before. Or that you take the clip to be consciously alive in a topographic point you cognize so well that you've stopped being truly aware of it.

Go and take a breath in a new environment - experience your originative pulse quicken.

One of the most valuable elements of creativity and creating things is the way it allows us to connect more deeply.

When we get a direct hot wired short cut straight to the source of our creativity it can make us feel excited, energised, more alive, more motivated and more happy.

There are two different ways we can use our creativity to connect more deeply:

1. Using your creativity to connect with yourself.

When you create from the deepest point inside yourself, that true source of creativity, it's rewarding in a way that nothing else can be.

You feel more alive and more connected and that you're closer to feeling and knowing what life itself is all about.

We all have our own unique set of creative skills and talents, and we each have our own creative voice. The more we create, the more we experiment and explore our creativity, the closer we get to that deep pure source, and to our unique creative voice.

Maybe for a poet it takes a hundred poems to even begin to get close to finding their unique ways of expressing themselves.

If you were that poet and you write one poem a month, obviously it's going to take nearly a decade to get this point. If you write a poem a day, of course you'll get there quicker. Then you can write each poem beyond that more easily and in a way more authentically as that pure expression of YOU.

2. Using your creativity to connect with other people.

There are many ways we can use our unique creative talents to connect with others. The two most obvious distinctions are connecting directly or indirectly.

If you're a singer for example, you might record an album and it sell a few thousand copies. You know that in some way you've connected with a few thousand people through your art. You know too that what you've put out in the world is in someway adding to people's lives, making them a little better.

And, as a singer, you probably do live gigs. During these you can enjoy the direct connection and feedback from your audience in a way that's not possible through selling records.

Another way creativity connects people is through shared creative passions. You could join a group, club or online forum about a creative passion of yours, and share your experiences with others who enjoy similar things.

Though you may not be directly sharing YOUR art, this is still a wonderful and valuable way of having meaningful connections with other people through creativity.

This is just a starting point to illustrate the to main ways you can connect more deeply – to yourself and to others – thought your creativity.

Doesn't that inspire you to want to create more, starting today?