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Have you ever had suffered from writer's block? How about performance anxiety? For a maker, there's is no greater discomfort than being shut out of your own creativity. It's just awful, ain't it?
Well, I had a breakthrough! Now it does not make me immune from writer's block, but the breakthrough is that I have an extra chair to offer it, so to speak, when it does come for a visit.
What is my secret? I'll tell ya, but not yet. First I'll describe how I found out about it. I wanted to go to study with the professors of the Stanford Design School, or D-School for the cool kids, but at that time I couldn't uproot to move from the US right coast to the left coast. So I found another way.
I flew east to Italy and studied on the PDQ with Stanford's lauded professors during a conference on Design Thinking held at the Architettura "Valle Giulia"| Sapienza Univerisita di Roma.
What I learned of Design Thinking until recently I had only applied to my practice as an industrial designer. But when I was promoting the joint challenge of CWH and Dreemport, it hit me.
What if I applied Design Thinking to Writer's Block?? I've tested it and found it working. So today, ahead of kicking off the Polished Post Challenge, I taught what I've been iterating to a live class of our Creative Crew and Dreemers.
I look forward to describing what that is and how to apply it to creativity on tomorrow's post, but for now I can say, that for the chance to share this with my friends today, it was totally worth the fear of flying to Rome.
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It’s truly awful
You've really travelled around to find the knowledge you need. I do suffer from creative blocks when it comes to music and have to find ways to work through them.
Practice Not Perfect, CWH's online music studio is held at a terrible hour for you, @steevc.
When @bitterirony and I get to the UK, we can select a time that works well for Hivians in Europe and Western Africa. I bet there are more musicians like us that could use an easy creative hack to lean on.
You can never suit everyone, especially when they are spread around the world. There are various online shows I tend to miss as they are on US time.
It’s true. In fact that’s the beauty of it!
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When I was a kid I had a tendency to write things and create stories (before computer times). As an adult I rarely write much anymore; Guess I suffer from a general state of writer's block. I'm trying to overcome this, reason why I joined HIVE (yes I'm new). I understand the feeling.