Creativity definitely wanes a little with age, but creativity is rarely original.... Ideas are formed out of chance discoveries, methodical trial and error, or the "like that, but wouldnt it be good if" principle.
When you're younger the wouldn't it be good if principle comes naturally because whenever you are faced with something new you are conditioned to throw ideas out there and test them, and to continually ask "why" but then as you get older you stop asking why and start accepting things for their face value.
You cannot force yourself to be creative, you can undo all you know with a frontal labotomy and starting asking why again, but your best bet is to deploy trial and error, dont ask yourself if something will work - instead prove that it does, or can be got to work.
Or digress into other creative techniques such as edgecraft, adding something to an existing thing, or taking something away, making it louder, make that heavy song a ballad... stuff like that.
All creativity is routed in what we know and what we ask based on what we don't know, so if you can't find a way to be creative then condition your mind to start asking why again by learning new things - read a science book - or a marketting book - or try learning a new sport or skill... Anything that doesn't come naturally to you in order to recondition your brain to start asking why again, because that's the bit of grey matter that creates things.
When you're younger the wouldn't it be good if principle comes naturally because whenever you are faced with something new you are conditioned to throw ideas out there and test them, and to continually ask "why" but then as you get older you stop asking why and start accepting things for their face value.
You cannot force yourself to be creative, you can undo all you know with a frontal labotomy and starting asking why again, but your best bet is to deploy trial and error, dont ask yourself if something will work - instead prove that it does, or can be got to work.
Or digress into other creative techniques such as edgecraft, adding something to an existing thing, or taking something away, making it louder, make that heavy song a ballad... stuff like that.
All creativity is routed in what we know and what we ask based on what we don't know, so if you can't find a way to be creative then condition your mind to start asking why again by learning new things - read a science book - or a marketting book - or try learning a new sport or skill... Anything that doesn't come naturally to you in order to recondition your brain to start asking why again, because that's the bit of grey matter that creates things.
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