how to find your creativity I know that
that's a very broad title and I know
that this video is gonna seem like you
know the the seven steps to success
right like it's gonna be some foolproof
guide that if you just do this this this
this and this in this particular order
it's gonna work out for you and
everything's gonna be great right well
this is just what's worked out for me
I'm not going to be like some pitchman
and say that absolutely 100%
satisfaction guaranteed and that this is
gonna work out for you because
truthfully everyone's different every
single person is unique everyone works
differently people work under different
sets and circumstances better than
others this is just request for me and
maybe a few of these things will work
out for you some of them might not maybe
all of them will just have an open ear
and open mind and we'll go from there
in my opinion though when it comes down
to creativity
I think everyone likes the first and
foremost associated just with the Arts
right well if you're creative you're
just you know you're an artist right
you're your drawing
your painting your maybe your making
some music or making a video right
that's all that creativity is really
necessary for everything else it's just
being practical right well I would
disagree I think that letting your
imagination just kind of run wild in any
circumstance even if it's simply for fun
one of the most important things you can
do I think creativity can be a way of
expressing your own feelings instead of
letting them being pent up inside you
which I truthfully don't believe is a
good thing
creativity though has a very important
role when it comes down to the workplace
in practical situations of course in the
educational field in school and also in
our own personal endeavors some people
obviously even try and do art music
video making trying to YouTube anything
for a living all of that requires
creativity and at one time or another we
hit a wall we hit a roadblock
we feel like we're running out of
material running out of ideas running
out of patience all of the above they
were kind of smacking our heads and
we're thinking I wish I could just get
something anything down and just
something to motivate me something I can
build off of something that I can work
on but there's nothing I'm just drawing
a blank that's what I was kind of doing
this afternoon I like doing food reviews
I like reviewing these products but
there I was sitting there not thinking
god there's nothing good out I have no
idea what I'm gonna review and I was
struggling for an idea and I decided to
take that idea or lack thereof and
incorporate that into a video all of its
own first things first when it comes
down to finding your creativity the most
important thing is to think about what
you enjoy doing what your passion is
what are your interests what motivates
you everyone has them if you say but you
don't have any interest whatsoever you
do might not be very apparent but if you
just you know you might say I don't know
what interests me you know I like
listening to a little music well there's
something I like watching a certain
movie well that's something else right
there I like I like playing for at night
that's a that's a that's a reference for
all you you can see how hip I am right
now it could be anything think about
what you enjoy doing what your interests
are what you're passionate about that
can play a huge role in terms of
motivating whatever whatever it is you
wish to do if you can find a way to
connect what you're passionate about to
your creative interests right there is
going to be a constant source of
material there's something that you can
always build off of because it's
something that you're excited about
something you're passionate about and
something that says essentially going to
fuel itself for instance with me
shortwave radio
no that's not something that's very
popular I by many people yet I could
incorporate certain aspects of shortwave
radio say into some of the stories that
I write I'm able to do a weekly radio
show on shortwave I'm able to
incorporate this broadcast medium that
I'm very interested in passionate about
into my own craft and as reisel that's a
way of kind of adding some fuel to it
kind of fueling that that creative drive
right there another thing that you can
do that I would recommend is to look at
current events you might say well you
know where is where is that what
significance does that hold they're all
here come the Bub's coming out at night
here's where current events come to play
you're lost you don't have any material
you don't have any idea what to do
you're hitting the wall go ahead open up
the tab take a look at the news see
what's going on in the world look at the
trending page on YouTube see what's
popular right now see what people are
talking about and sometimes these events
can give us certain ideas that we can
therefore build off of or that can
influence us in one way or another
creativity that's not a word but you
know what I mean
speaking a lot of the time without do
sometimes is when I'm not really and
when I'm kind of lost in terms of things
to review what do I do
I sometimes open up the news I'll check
out the major websites for these
fast-food chains sometimes I just check
out Google News for instance when I was
when I was looking for ideas
I checked the news I saw that there are
all these articles about I hob and
they're they're glorious glorious
burgers there is an idea right there I
check the websites for these major
fast-food establishments I'll see that
they have a new release out and there's
my idea to work on right there sometimes
it's checking the news seeing what
people are talking about will give you
ideas right in front of you right in
front of your face another thing that I
think a lot of people kind of
underestimate if you're lost if you
don't have an idea of what you should do
there is no shame and no harm in asking
your audience if you have one or your
friends or your family well you have any
ideas there's no harm in that whatsoever
some people they almost take offense to
that they they think that's stooping
down low for some reason that well if I
if I ask my audience about ideas they're
gonna see how weak I am and that I don't
have any ideas in my own
nonsense that's such a line of both
don't don't even don't even consider
that there is no harm if you don't have
any ideas what to do let's say you make
art and you have a couple followers
shoot him a question say hey listen do
you have any ideas of something I can I
can draw next
you write you do short stories go ahead
ask a few of your readers any ideas
anything you'd like to see me write
about you might not always agree with
what the feedback might be you might
think it's bad feedback but at the same
time these are ideas that are being
thrown your way something that you
should definitely consider and if you
don't have an audience you don't have
any friends or family that are willing
to help you there's online communities
that'll certainly be willing to do so as
well
many of many social media sites many web
sites full rooms right that's old school
will be will be happily willing to help
you out there is no harm in asking a
simple question
none whatsoever and if you still feel on
the edge about that ask yourself this
what can go wrong either a I'm gonna get
some good ideas that I'll be able to
employ going forward be I'll get some
ideas that I'm not really a fan of but
at least I got some ideas where is see
nothing will happen and I won't be any
better off or worse off than I was in
the first place another thing that's
important let's say that you're still
kind of struggling and you don't really
have any ideas or creativity or you're
kind of just lost you're hitting that
wall you're hitting that metaphorical
writer's block know one thing that you
can do is just start listing down your
thoughts just write down a list on a
piece of paper on your phone on your
computer anywhere anyplace just start
listing down random thoughts it's
exactly what I did for this video right
here just listed them down all with
points one after the other might not
really be totally coherent might just be
random thoughts and random tidbits and
bits of information but just list them
down
whatever is in your head get it down
onto paper and again before you know it
something might emerge that you'll be
able to work with it'll be there before
you know it
sometimes just organizing things and
instead of just thinking through it
being able to see it with your own two
eyes makes a huge difference one other
important thing of course that I think a
lot of us struggle with don't be afraid
of failure I think a lot of us one thing
that really kind of stops us when it
comes down to to creativity and ideas to
work with we're afraid that it's not
gonna work out we all we all strive for
success it's human nature it's a human
trait I always of course hope that if I
do a video you know it performs all
right that's what I always hope for
whether we all like it or not I think we
all kind of hope that whatever endeavor
it is which we wish to pursue will work
out well that people will enjoy it that
it might get a few likes you followers
might get a good grade might perform
well in the workplace whatever it is we
all strive for success but one thing
that we cannot be afraid of is failure
as well it's a fact of life it's how
things are there are going to be times
where we had hoped so much that
something was gonna float and instead it
sinks not everything's gonna work out
the way that we wanted it to we might
put in a lot of work a lot of elbow
grease as they say and it might fail and
you know what that's okay don't be
afraid of failure because that fear of
failure that fear of underperforming or
something not going the way that you
wanted it to go
that'll oftentimes get the best of us
it'll absorb us it'll consume us it'll
dominate our minds and at that exact
time it'll very likely degrade the
quality of whatever it is we're trying
to do don't be afraid of failure just go
ahead and do it and let the results
speak for themselves not everything is
going to work
but you'll be surprised sometimes I
guess this is number seven on the list
but I really don't know what bullet
point this is but on this on a
penultimate note one other thing that
works out best for me and this is this
very specific thing and I don't know if
it'll work for you utilize spontaneity
the thing that works best for me is
being spontaneous if you believe it or
not most of my videos I really don't
plan at all in advance I get an idea and
I immediately run with it the last video
I did the the iHub the ASCO I knew I
wanted to review it but how I was gonna
do it I didn't know originally I was
thinking it's gonna be another car
review gonna be standard just you know
get the sign in the background and do a
review of it but literally within the
span of 20 minutes I decided you know
what I'm gonna try and do something
different today I just suddenly got this
idea where I just wanted to make it more
of like a collage of various clips and
just be sarcastic about it all instead
of planning it out I decided to run with
it just completely ad-lib it just film
it let it go film anything and see where
it takes us
if you have an idea that just comes to
you spontaneously sometimes take
advantage of it because otherwise I know
what happens with me sometimes when I
get an idea and I don't take advantage
of it right away
sometimes it'll just slip it will fall
out of my grasp and that motivation that
I previously had to employ that idea
just won't be there even a few hours or
a day or two later utilize that
spontaneity if you can if you can
there are times practically speaking
where we just won't be able to
something's going on we've got something
that we just can't do it and that's
understandable that's just how life is
but if you get an idea utilize that
spontaneity as best you can
and run with it and it'll sometimes take
you to places you never even imagined
otherwise and on a final note don't be
afraid to take a break one of the times
one of the things that I do for fun is
writing it's not something that I do for
any money it's a something that I enjoy
doing for fun for pleasure I like to
write short stories I like to write a
few short stories hearing they're pieces
of fiction the occasional poem no
nothing too incredible I'm not trying to
be the next JK Rowling or anything but I
enjoy writing a few short stories and
there is one story that I was working on
it's called the progression of life and
it wasn't the happiest story in the
world but I was trying to make something
of it and I got it to around 40 50 pages
and I hit a wall I hit the famous
writer's block I was rereading it I was
looking at it over and over again I was
editing what I had but there was just no
new material that was coming my way and
I was frustrated I was thinking damn can
you can you just think of something that
you can write something that you can put
down on that paper something that you
can add to this story and I kept forcing
it I kept trying to think anything just
just write something down get some sort
of idea going but when I was forcing it
no ideas and any ideas that were coming
when I was trying to for us it they
weren't any good ones wasn't anything
that contributed to the quality of the
story
sometimes when all else fails we can
afford to do it it's okay to take a
break it's okay to let your mind to just
get a rest recharge that battery so to
speak and pick that pen up again when
you're ready to do so nothing wrong with
taking a break sometimes one of the most
effective solutions when you're faced
with one of those conundrums when it
comes down to creativity or lack thereof
just give your mind a break move on to
another project move on to something
else don't throw it away but sideline it
for
and it might take a while might take a
couple days weeks months or even a year
but you never know that idea might just
finally swirl back around after a break
you could restart it better you know you
could restart it get back into things
better than ever before just recently
for instance I took a break from writing
for a good long year just a few days ago
suddenly that motivation just came back
to me out of the blue all of a sudden I
just started writing another short story
and I've already got 20 pages under the
belt which I did in a few days because
that creative drive after a year break
just swirled around and came back to me
how to find your creativity that's a few
a few tips some honest discussion about
the problems that I faced almost on a on
a daily basis and some of the things I
do to combat those problems hope you
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