the brain is like a muscle. you need to work it for it to be stronger. i’ve been thinking about that since we had a guest speaker who’s the creative director of the largest creative agency in Singapore.
i would say i’m a creative person, but how much exactly do i create? not a lot actually. which really makes me feel bad cause if God’s put something in me, i’ve got to use it!
the guest speakers tips are as follows:
- keep a notebook
- the ’60 boxes’ rule
- have a life (e.g. do fun projects)
- imitate greatness
- question everything
i do keep a notebook. but i hardly use it… he’s point of keeping a notebook is so that he can jot down whatever ideas come to him. but how often do ideas jump into my head. i don’t know. maybe cause i’m always preoccupied with other stuff like work and plain rushing from place to place.
the 60 boxes rule is scary. he said that when his team receives a brief, he’ll make them come up with 60 ideas. one per box. and out of the 60 there’s bound to be 1 or 2 good ones. honestly? i really don’t know if my brain can churn out 5, let alone 60!
have a life. here’s what really hit me. wow. i don’t have a life.
hahaha i know it’s painfully obvious right, but i guess i always knew i’m super busy with work i don’t have time to do fun stuff. but for it to affect creativity like that? i don’t know man. i’m feel like a dead boring person. man. this stinks. haha
imitate greatness. this is rather comforting though, cause who else greater to imitate than God right? we should all be imitating Him, growing in Christ-likeness.
question everything. there’s another thing that hit home. i don’t. i don’t ask questions. i just take things given to me and run with them. i’m a product of the system, if you will. i don’t know man. i guess it could be a good thing, look where it got me thus far. but again. i’m a square, la. haha. i sometimes get really stressed in bizlaw tutorial cause we HAVE to ask questions. it’s almost compulsory!
here’s one of the projects the speaker is working on. pretty cool right? i reckon i wanna do something like that. but see, then it’s a lack of creativity.
so here’s something i thought i’d do for starters.
i’ll tweet/blog a reflection from devotions each day. i’ll try to make it sound as cool, interesting and poetic as possible. i don’t think i’ll draw something on a post-it like he does. but it sure is cool to do something like that, or fun-ner.
in the meanwhile, i gotta figure out what to do to get a work-life balance.
