Read This To Never Run Out Of Creative Fuel Again And Avoid Lack Of Inspiration 2/2

How to make finding inspiration no longer a problem and boost creativity on a daily basis.

Ever wondered why creativity seems effortless and natural for some while others struggle? Today we will zoom in and break down creativity. Read this to understand what is creativity and how to leverage it.

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Read part 1 if you haven’t yet:

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What you feed your brain—how ideas are born

Listening to an audiobook instead of music while driving is effortless. Clearing your feed by unfollowing accounts with no value is effortless. Reading one page before bed is effortless. Search for such easy fixes in your area and let’s start with that.

The input is everything you consume on a daily basis: your social media feeds, books, YouTube videos, etc. The output is your creative work. If you input shit, guess what’s gonna be the output.

There are also factors you can’t control, such as past experiences, cultural background, and exposure to diverse influences. These (among all the other things, more later) are what make some people more creative than others.

Ideas are already there

Your brain is a mine full of ideas, you just need to dig them out. The simplest practice I know for this is allowing your mind to idle. Why do the best ideas come to you in the shower, on a walk, while performing an easy and repetitive manual task, or just before falling asleep? Why do you dream of things that seem unimaginable when you're awake? Because our mind has time to actually think, compute, sort, analyze and create conclusions.

Especially today, when we constantly bombard ourselves with stimulation, take a break to do nothing. The examples above might be the closest some people ever come to experiencing a meditative state in their lifetime. We don’t want to be those people.

Meditate. I have been meditating for 2+ years now. Meditating will allow you to reach the areas of mind for which there’s no time in your daily, busy life. Meditation creates space for the mind to rest, recharge, and explore states of thought that otherwise remain out of reach. If you have never meditated, try today. I will give you 3 examples of what might happen. Go back here after your first session and leave a comment on how it went. How to even meditate though?

• Unlocking past memory: Once while meditating, I unlocked a memory that had vanished for years. I specifically used the word “unlocked”, as it magically reappeared in my head after all those years of not being there. Quite an interesting experience.

• Idea forming: As I said before, when your brain has time to take a breath it will use its power to put all the puzzles together and gather the fruits from previously planted seeds.

• High-like state: Won’t leave dealers jobless but after you lay down and focus on breath or specific sensation in your body for 5-10 minutes with no thought crossing your head, it sometimes may feel like a slight high.

Consistent, repetitive actions

The harder part, but that’s a must. Even if the bonfire has 1000 sticks and 10000 pieces of paper, you still need a spark to light a fire. One spark is rarely enough, and fire needs to be fed to keep burning. Sitting down to plan out a project is like using a flint in this metaphor. Sitting down to do your work every day is adding fuel. Your best ideas are useless unless you bring them to life.

Taking advantage of inspiration

Inspiration is like a thunderbolt that lights your bonfire with no effort at all. It’s more likely to strike from a cloudy sky, but it can strike from a clear one too. When the fire is burning, we need to take full advantage of it. Feed it until you run out of fuel, you don’t know when the next lightning will strike.

No wrong way, only your way