Break the formula, break through the barrier and get out of your own creative comfort zone!!!!!!!!!!

Brain violence Exercises

If you're not keen on writing, it's OK to practice brain violence by painting. But I still suggest that you exercise your conceptual thinking in the form of words, and you are likely to be amazed by the incredible creativity that you are manifesting in it.

Word Association is a simple exercise. Think of a concept that you are most interested in, write in the center of the page, and then use this as the center of the circle to write all the words you can think of that relate to this concept around. At first, you don't even need to focus on a particular object. For example, you can write the word "banana" in the middle of the page, and then write the relevant concepts around it, such as yellow, monkey, delicious, and so on, and then write down more words related to these two-level concepts, and so on, and see what you're going to get when it lasts, maybe some cool idea, Maybe it's just a 10-minute banana class.

The goal of this exercise is to break the mindset that you have been building up as a result of regular education and work patterns. The form of practice is not necessarily annular, you can also use a list or even a sketch hand-drawn form; The point is to keep writing, to accept the feeling that the new ideas will be quickly and continuously exported, even if it seems ridiculous-any good ideas, there will always be a lot of less good ideas for the transition and support This exercise can also help you realize that this is a normal situation.

Warm-up reading

There is a clear difference between the reference-warming reading and the deep reading of learning. The former is very helpful for getting to know new topics quickly, which can take a lot of time, although the immersive reading process allows you to learn something, but it is better to leave more time to the relevant practice to learn.

The key to understanding and researching new things through reading is the ability to find good content. Not all blogs or websites have superior content, so be sure to read more and compare to ensure the quality of your reading. I personally see a lot of good design articles in layer Vault, involving UI, UX, dynamic, mobile design, after effects and so on, and, of course, a lot of similar content sources, not listed.

User assistance in the form of content dissemination helps you discover new blogs or new sites. To Hacker News or your area of interest in the Reddit type of site to see which domain name articles are always submitted by the majority of users and praise, you may have explored a very good source of content. In addition, in many forums or social networking sites will also have users recommend high-quality content resources. As long as the content that can trigger their own interests, try to read, try to accept a variety of ideas, also remember to do more bookmarks.

Embrace failure

The so-called failure, including the inability to complete a certain behavior, or the inability to understand a certain concept. The feeling of both is not so good, so frustrating. No one is born to speak Burmese, or to draw a beautiful Bengal tiger or something. Before you reach your goal, there will always be a middle area where you can do poorly, and then slowly become less bad, and then you start getting better and faster.

Starting from a state of complete stagnation is the most difficult phase. You need to be motivated enough to overcome your inertia and build up your creative habits gradually. Sometimes, repeated failures are the only way to success, and what you learn from each failure is the capital you keep moving forward. Don't be afraid of failure, embrace it with your arms open, even if the next failure is waiting for you, keep moving forward.

In addition, you have to understand that failure is better than nothing happened. Many people go through a difficult period when they enter a new field of creativity, and most people prefer to stop at something they know or do nothing. Only if you really build a sense of acceptance of failure, you will not find any reason to delay the time not to learn new things.

Getting out of a typical comfort zone makes you feel "uncomfortable" because it creates a lot of uncertainty. There is no other way, only to embrace these uncertainties, to cross the starting (and the most difficult) obstacles, began to embark on a new track.

Practice copying

Recently, Austin Kleon's speech in TEDx called "stealing like an artist" aroused my interest. His view is that most of the artistic creations in the world begin with the original idea of copying or reprocessing. By copying your own work and comparing it, it's easy to see where you've done it wrong and where it needs to be improved.

In addition, it is harmless to copy the works of other artists or designers during the practice. Whether writing, music, art, design or photography, if you're a novice, you can take the time to learn and imitate high-quality work as an exercise. You can't build a business with replication, but you can learn it this way, especially in the early stages.

If possible, try to get back to a state where time is not a problem, the kind of state that is not deadline, that you are purely trying to create. In this state, you don't have any pressure, you can explore without thinking too much about what will eventually happen.

Impromptu creation

It is often necessary to think or act in a new way in order to establish an association between new ideas. It reminds me of "improvisation," like a jazz player.

On this topic, I would like to recommend another great TEDx speech, brought by Dave Morris on the topic of improvisation. When it comes to improvisation, many people think of impromptu comedy, which is certainly true. But on the whole, "improvisation" represents spontaneous, context-based, instant creation. In each case there is a set of rules that, as long as you follow these rules, can create spontaneous, immediate creative behavior in other things.

Try to set up some impromptu exercises for yourself that may not be appropriate at the beginning of the period, but you will find it interesting and worth a try.

Rules are used to control the chaos that can be created by improvisation. For example, to come up with a customer, set some rules, such as asking the appropriate home to create a new home page, which requires a picture carousel, as well as a navigation containing 7 items. Then you draw sketches for this hypothetical set of rules, moving quickly and easily, relying more on intuition and instinct than on deliberate thinking.

? This practice period may make you feel strange at first. Don't make yourself too tired, do not think too many right and wrong, because these are just practice, just the process; With the constant improvisation, the proportion of "right" and "wrong" in output will naturally develop in the right direction.

Summary

Breaking through old patterns, experimenting with new ideas, and going into new areas--it's more practical than talking about it, and of course it's more difficult, because it's not as simple as it looks. However, if you can try some methods, in a different angle, let yourself put down some pressure, progressive step forward, then things will really become easier.

Break the formula, break through the barrier and get out of your own creative comfort zone!!!!!!!!!!