In
the book Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to
Unlock Your Creative Self, it’s as if author Rod Judkins is talking to each
and every one of us. If you’re looking
for guidance, insights, and words of inspiration, look no further than these
passages:
If You Can’t Find A Way, Make One
“Inner
belief and conviction creates resilience. Self-belief carries the creative through
troubled times. It is a shield from the negativity
of others.
"The
creative person’s refusal to compromise can make them unpopular, but the
important thing is to create at all costs…
“You
have to believe in yourself and your work.
If you don’t, how can you expect anyone else to?”
Join Forces To Be A Force
“Having
someone else to bounce ideas off can help the flow of inspiration.”
Be Proud To Be Different
“Don’t
worry if people think you and your methods are odd or unusual. It’s an
advantage to be unique. Original thinkers
don’t automatically adopt the practices of others in their field of work. They develop their own working methods. This leads to different ways of thinking.
Be Unreasonable
“It’s
ok to be unreasonable. To solve an
exceptional problem, to get people to think in an entirely new way, or to crack
an impossible task, you need someone driven not by logic, but by emotion,
passion, and desire.”
Don’t Hurry Time
“You
must live at the speed that suits you.
Don’t force things. To be truly creative
you must work at your own pace…Don’t impose a time frame on yourself. Let your work tell you how long it needs.”
Go With The Flow
“Do
not devise a plan and then slavishly follow it.
To live creatively you must go with the flow and see what evolves. Listen to the work you are producing and it
will tell you how it wants to progress.”
Be An Extremist
“How
far can you take things? Be extreme,
rapid, intense, and excessive. Whatever
you are doing, push yourself and your work to the limit…What can be
exaggerated, overstated, or understated? How would you approach your project if
you had all the resources in the world, or no resources?"
Be Certain Of Uncertainty
“Everything
around you is constantly changing.
Nothing is fixed. Nothing is
forever. Successful, creative people
don’t work against this knowledge but work with it. Everything is in a state of
flux. Boundaries between disciplines
break down, values become increasingly blurred and change accelerates.”
Turn Fear Into Fuel
“All
creative people feel dread and panic.
The difference is that they feed off it.
They turn it into a positive force.”
Make It Happen
“If
you want something to happen, you will have to make it happen.
“While
everyone else is thinking of reasons why a task is too difficult, impossible,
the creatives are thinking of reasons why it’s possible.
“A
creative mind is proactive, not passive.
Things happen around creative people.”
“Confidence is contagious. But so is lack of confidence.”
--Vince Lombardi, Superbowl Champion Head Coach
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
--Voltaire
“The important thing is somehow to begin.”
--Henry Moore“Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.”
--Buffy Andrews
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