Arrange your time and tasks according to these seven categories, and you'll be a creativity machine
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4 Stages of Creative Control
- Preparation: you’re learning everything you can about the problem.
- Incubation: you’re allowing your unconscious mind to work on the problem.
- Illumination: the solution comes to you. It doesn’t tend to happen while you’re sitting at your desk. It might be when you’ve just woken up.
- Verification: you ensure that the idea meets up to your standards. Does it solve the problems you identified during the Preparation stage?
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Creative work categories
- Prioritize: The clearer your priorities, the more focused you can be on the task at hand.
- Generate: Build a creative habit. Make a daily deliverable, whether it’s 100-words a day, a 30-second song etc...
- Explore: When you Explore, you collect the raw materials for the insights you’ll have when you Generate.
- Research: To solve a creative problem, you have to learn whatever you can about that problem.
- Recharge: When you rest, you allow your unconscious mind to work on your creative problems.
- Polish: A great idea won’t work if you don’t execute it well.
- Administrate: make it all work, so you can keep doing what you’re doing.
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Becoming a perpetual creativity machine
- Build a tiny creative habit: Find the time of day with the best creative energy and make your daily deliverable so small, you can’t stand to fail.
- Take time to Prioritize: Once you’ve established a habit, dedicate an hour a week to a “weekly review”.
- Rest with a purpose: Establish times during your day and your week when you’ll do something that Recharges you.
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