How You Can Consciously Generate Inspiration
2022 ж. 22 Қар.
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The video from 5 years ago is probably the most important video I've ever seen, and this is simply Part II, and I love every second. Thank you.
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Great video on this topic! I always describe creativity as 'the mind remixing different inputs'. It just connects two dots randomly at some point and suddenly you have a great idea. To increase the chance of this happening, you need to have more input and give your mind the time to process it. Be open to different things - not only creative stuff like movies or other fiction. The world is full of interesting stuff you might not even know about yet. That's why many creative personalities have many new ideas after visiting another country for the first time. That's my perspective on this topic at least.
One thing my prose professor at university said that I'll paraphrase that stuck with me was, "Inspiration is not always going to be there. If you are going to write for a living, you have to make it a part of your daily routine. Your work may suck, but keep creating something anyway so that when inspiration does come, you have a bunch of material to pull from. The genius of creativity is often to be able to realize what you have in front of you and how to appropriately arrange it to best tell a story." Many of my poems came from a spark of creativity, but they only became something I was proud of after constant revision. Sometimes it just takes looking at a piece of work you have already done when your mind is in a different place. My favorite writer is Stephen King. In his book "On Writing" he talks about how he sits down every day at writes at least six pages (I think that's the number). It is how he has been so prolific and largely good. Not every King book is amazing but there are only a couple I would call complete crap. Most of them are quite good and there's a reason he is known as the king of horror. Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot, The Stand, Christine, Pet Sematary, It, The Dead Zone, The Running Man, Needful Things, Cujo, Firestarter, The Dark Tower books, Misery, and even some of his newer stuff like 11/22/63, Under the Dome, Doctor Sleep, and the Mr. Mercedes Trilogy are all culturally significant books. Few authors can claim to have as large a body of work of that caliber.
This was so good to hear. I've seen so many biopics of artists and the myth they sell is always of genius and inspiration while cutting out so much of what made that artist great- the work, the practice, the study, the experiences. You can't force inspiration, but you can't have inspiration without doing work. Artists don't sit around waiting for the ideas to come, they spend years building the skills to make the ideas real when they do come.
The k you for talking about this, sometimes I say next week, and than it never comes, because I have work and family. But a few hours once a week when I do have time, like I put time away for work, and traveling to work. I just have to push myself to get the 9 am inspiration, when my art shift will begin.
I find it easier to generate ideas when you have a habit of working your brains out consistently while working. Inspiration comes in time of rest, but it comes more often if there's a problem that you spend significant amount of brainpower solving, that you keep looking for solutions unconsciously. At the same time it's important to have enough rest, and spend it in a variety of ways, otherwise craft becomes routine and you tend to repeat yourself. Consistent work is also crucial for ability to reach the state of flow.
A lot of people below have also touched on the iterative nature of creativity too, which I think is one of the more important aspects. Inspiration doesn't always come in a single explosion or great wave - it often comes as a series of small sparks or drops that can be gathered up and recorded. They can then be pulled out later to be combined with other drops of inspiration as well as the limitations of what you can do and what you have available to you, to be remixed and built upon until you have something that can be worked with. Tolkien didn't decide to write a 3 book epic of European literature, he wrote a series of languages based on languages he enjoyed learning about, then built a world for them to exist in, then wrote a small story about dwarves and dragons, and so on and on things rolled.
I believe something very similar happens with art, some people are waiting for some divine inspiration to start painting, but in the meantime you can be training on your basics, working on a layout, design, getting references; so when inspiration finds you or you find it, you are fully prepared.
The last few minutes of the video really stood out to me. I've started to feel the canyon between my vision and my skillset. I have ideas that sound fantastic, but I feel my skills are limited. I hope I can narrow the gap as you said!
Creativity must come from the editing process because I've checked everywhere else.
Beautifully conceptualized ! in my experience, I also find that adding a bit of meditation (inward contemplation with an aim of achieving calmness) also helps to digest all of perceived inspiration from other works and the life surrounding us. By doing so, you give the opportunity to all the inputs to circulate within you and give birth to something that can be labeled as “creative”
I'd have to agree with you. I have no trouble generating ideas but for me the trick is picking the right one; the one that inspires me the most and kind of won't let me go, the one I can't ignore is ultimately, the one I decide to write. Then it kind of writes itself.... plus a lot of work from me!
Awesome video, now you got me into thinking on how open minded people are the most creative... would be another great topic to explore
My dad would always quote at me "practice makes you lucky"
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Excellent, really got a lot from this. Thanks
This video is amazing. 🖤✨ I hope KZhead recommend it to more people
Love your channel, keep it up!
Pressfield is a genius when it comes to this. If i'm in a slump i just reread his book The War of Art and get in a better headspace to make it happen. You have to show up and work before the Muse does. if she isn't showing work anyway. she'll come in time.
I like riding my bike through the forest, ideas come to my mind so quickly, I have no idea why. but maybe that‘s due to what you said, that we occupy ourselves with something proactive in order to let our minds wander
You are my inspiration🤩
Thanks for making this video. You are amazing. You made this video for me.
You gotta make a method. A personal formula. I make thinks whacky and out there and seeing how things react. This lets me know what I need to write next. Just keep going. This rock garden won't make itself, so grab that boulder and start lifting.
Oooooh unlimited motivation say it ain’t so!
8:11 I feel like I do nothing but research (vs. mindless consumption). I would think the same applies to most creative folks?
to get lost in my thoughts, i go to a quiet room with no sound, walk around and come up with or expand an idea
Waiting for inspiration means it will never come, work on your craft read into things, and just write. Pro athletes dont wait to feel good they continually work on themselves and are then prepared enough that when the big moment comes they know they will be ready
Sadhguru also recommends showering when you're stuck and has a good explanation for it
Where do you get your ideas from?
4:41 Name of movie ??
I mean whiplash
try meditation, after you get good at it, you may have waking dreams and your creativity will go through the roof
Hey bud can you pretty please do a piece on peaky blinders
Exciting can't wait
I wasn’t the only person to read “Where does inception come from?” Was I?
Where does a tought go when its forgotten?
Note good thoughts down
I think for every brillant piece of work there are three miilion works of crap and some of the brillant and the crap were made be the same person. So, if you make three million and one pieces of work at lest one of them will be amazing.
I think the whole argument that you are either creative or you are not is bullshit. Creatives create and they do that through hard work. If you want to be creative then create something, anything, and keep at it. Look at Vivian Maier. A nanny in Chicago who took photos on her spare time. She died poor, her estate was sold, and art collectors found her photographs. Now her photos are displayed in museums and highly praised. That art project you have in your head may seem silly, but it also could not be. No one knows until you make it happen. And trust me, we are all waiting for you to make it happen.
I used to think that you needed talent and all that bullshit to be a painter. And so I wasted years of my life not trying as hard as I should. Only when I started to really take it serious as a skill I got both inspiration and technique to pull off what is in my head
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So u basically remade your most popular video?
Even more Interesting is that KZhead gave me a “rate this comment prompt” I thought we lived in a wonderland where we only are allowed to thumb up, yet for some reason KZhead needs to get a consensus from people rating other people’s user comments. 🤖👁👽
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