There are those who believe that creative people have special secret powers and innate talents. But it's not. Everyone has creativity. We made a selection of 30 commandments, following which you can awaken your creative power and make your life brighter.

1. Creativity starts in the heart

Listening to our cherished desires, and attentively, we get the opportunity not only to engage in the creativity we dream about, but also to dream that this creativity will reach a significant scale.

2. Creativity needs to be nurtured constantly.

Talent or interest is a living part of you, like a hand, or an ear, or an eye. All this must be used, it must be nourished, otherwise it will atrophy and you will not be what you should be.

A way to train your creativity every day is the 1 page a day creative notebook. Source - MIF's creative Instagram @miftvorchestvo

3. Vision is magical

Magic is the ability to see results without seeing the process leading to them. It is vision, inner vision, that allows you to notice what the work lacks, and also helps to see what no one has seen before. This is an incredible human gift - to see beyond the present and the past and from that distant, unknown, to extract something that has not existed until now.

The great 20th-century composer Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote: “We just need to close our eyes and listen for a while. Around us, in the air, something never heard before is always heard.

4. The best place to start a creative process is to end it.

Let each new creation arise in your mind as if from nothing. The form, structure of creation, the impressions and sensations that it leaves, its very life - all this immediately comes through, even in the most simple picture. Imagine the result. Add elements. Take the risk of removing some of the old ones. Examine the imaginary creature from the inside, from the outside. You will learn a lot about your concept.

The ability to imagine your creation in a complete form makes it possible to work with knowledge of the matter, and not build work on assumptions. This knowledge is the reason why many professional creators are so self-confident.

5. Creativity is not a problem, problem solving is not creativity

Someone decides the same things all his life, someone acquires new ones. The main motivating force for them is the acuteness of the problem. As soon as the worst is smoothed out, the motivation to act weakens. Dealing with problems as a way of life is obviously a losing option, because it leads to the fading of activity, moreover, aimed at solving problems!

When you get your hands on a big and appetizing problem, you don't have to think anymore - you already have an obsession. What if you didn't have any problems? What would you think then? What did you do?

6. The stubbornness of artists makes this world a better place.

Fortunately for us, artists are stubborn people. The best-selling author was advised by her therapist to focus on a career as a secretary, but she continued to write (that's me). The famous director was removed from the documentary project, but he continued to make films (Martin Scorsese). The talented actress was expelled from the Boston University acting program (Oscar winner Geena Davis). The lawyer who "should" be wasting time on "cases" proved that he should have been writing too (John Grisham). These artists listened to their inner voice, and several external voices whispered - or shouted that they also knew who we really were. These people strengthened our confidence and changed our destinies.

7. There is a place for creativity always and everywhere

Text doesn't care where you create it. It's important that . You do it. The same is true for drawing. One artist lost a whole year because he "could not work without a workshop." When the workshop appeared and he returned to work, he created several rather large paintings, but many more - beautiful miniatures in charcoal and pencil, which he could even draw on a TV bedside table if he so desired. But he did not work - and not because there was no workshop, but because he simply did not work. There is a place for creativity in any life, no matter how eventful and full of people or, conversely, boring and empty it may be.

8. The art of small steps

If you are an aspiring musician and want to learn how to play the piano, then sit down at it and touch the keys. Fine. Tomorrow you can sit down at the piano again and touch the keys. Five minutes a day is better than zero. Five minutes can turn into ten, just like a light hug can turn into something more passionate.

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I can’t write a whole book today, but one page is enough. I won't be able to become an accomplished pianist right away, but I can set aside 15 minutes for music lessons. You may not be able to count on a solo exhibition in Soho today, but you are quite capable of drawing your Cocker Spaniel, imposingly nestled in an old leather chair, or sketching the hand of a loved one. You can start.

9. Magic in action

Goethe said: "Whenever you think or believe you can do something, get down to business, for there is magic, grace and power in action."

10. There is always an opportunity to do something positive.

The inconvenient truth is that there is always an opportunity to do something positive - yes, hell, always, even if we are not in the mood for it. Optimism in relation to yourself and your capabilities is already a conscious choice. We can make this choice, believe in the best, not the worst, but for this we need to hear the negative soundtrack sounding in our head and decide to change it.

11. Use constructive and practical thinking

Constructive thinking is the generation of raw ideas, without any evaluations and judgments. The strategy is that you need to come up with as many ideas as possible, both obvious and the most crazy, and criticism is inappropriate at this time. As you come up with more ideas, change your approach to include hands-on thinking. It is necessary to identify which of them have the greatest value. Edison once claimed to have come up with 3,000 different theories for electric lighting. Each of them looked reasonable, but he settled on the most practical and profitable. His first goal was to create as many opportunities as possible, and then he went into evaluation - identifying the most healthy and viable idea.

Constructive thinking and practical thinking are two separate mental operations, and there is no compromise, middle position between them. - Illustration from the book Hacking Creative

12. Thinking without judgment is dynamic and flexible

A creative person is able to think freely and flexibly. It allows unlimited deployment of ideas, their organization into lines, a kind of hitchhiking of options, any combination of them for the invention of new ones, until it comes to the final breakthrough result that makes you exclaim “Eureka!”. Ideas replace each other, giving rise to additional ideas and their combinations, which multiplies the possibilities.

13. Test creativity with emotion

Measuring your success is very important. A great way to measure success is to determine how you want to feel. Take some time and jot down a list of emotions you want from your business. Perhaps it will be something similar to this one.

• freedom
• Happiness
• completeness
• Cheerfulness
• Self-confidence
• security
• Creation
• completeness

Check your feelings against this list regularly. Does the business give you the feelings you want? For example, do you feel secure? If so, then you have succeeded in your determination. Congratulations! And if not, try to understand why. What can be done to change how you feel?

14. Headphones help muffle the noise of the outside world

Headphones, with or without music, create a kind of buffer around you. This is especially useful if you are a woman and are trying to work on a novel in a cafe. For a certain type of sociable people (meaning men), the sight of a lady with frowning eyebrows, typing something frantically on a laptop in a public place, evokes the only association: you need to come up and get to know each other. Headphones are a great way to keep these well-meaning but very annoying citizens at bay.

“I always write novels with headphones on. Sometimes I even remember that it would not be bad to connect them to something. Headphones help to muffle the noise of the surrounding world. And when they are connected to the player, they drive music at a terrible speed right into my brain, circling the forms of my thoughts with a clear outline and giving strength to the sentences that appear on the page.

15. You are your job

You change and your work becomes different. As you develop, so does your creativity. Your work lives and breathes because you live and breathe. As you live life to the fullest, you enhance the collective human experience. As William Blake wrote, "everything that lives, lives not alone, not for itself." There is no longer any difference between you and others, between what you give and what you receive. It's all the same, an ever-changing dance, a constant conversation in which no more can be said where one begins and the other ends.

16. Each artist - an artbook

Your artbook is your ticket to creative freedom. This is your "sandbox" where you can try out new artistic media and techniques, new colors and their effects, try your hand at different formats without limiting yourself. If you have inspiration, write poetry. Let thoughts find verbal expression as well as graphic expression.

The following are the signs that immediately precede creative insight:

“The most complete pre-creative states were considered by the famous artist-designer A.N. Tsybin. Let us present his opinions (personal communication, May 2006), as specified by the author of this article.

1. The main condition for entering the creative state is the loneliness of the creator. At least for the time of creating creations, their author must live in conditions of social deprivation. However, it is necessary to separate from people only as from an irritant that diverts too much spiritual energy to itself. It is necessary that the social background of his environment, which tones the creator, be preserved as a slight irritant, reminding him of the theme and the need for his work. This is what the Parisian period of creativity was like. E. Hemingway. He worked - wrote - in a sparsely populated cafe at a separate table. The trouble is, if someone approached him with obsessive attention - his creative process broke down. Also A.P. Chekhov in Yalta, he protected himself from excessive communication, retaining only social contacts that tonic his work. Can you remember A.S. Pushkin in Mikhailovsky, P.I. Tchaikovsky at a lonely dacha near Moscow and many others.

2. A weak confrontational background can be useful for a pre-creative state, i.e. slight anger of the creator at the people around him close to him. L.N. Tolstoy before immersing himself in creativity, he was angry with his wife, as if she had incorrectly copied his manuscript. Translator of ancient French poetry A.G. Neumann, as we found out during a psychoanalysis session with him, was angry with his wife, "he himself did not know why or why," and the sharper his irritation, the more lyrical the translated poems turned out to be.

3. From works 3. Freud it is known that sexual stress can become a powerful preset for creativity, sublimating into it. Sexual tension, being sublimated in creativity, brings, along with inspiration, spirituality, lust, also the aggression of egoism.

4. The euphoria of the author due to his optimal bodily state can become a pre-creative state and an incentive to creativity. A trained body (but not excessively, not for records) and general health create a feeling of slight delight in the author. However, overexpenditure of physical strength blocks the stress of creativity. I.P. Pavlov reported that his creative mood was promoted by the game of towns, in which there is a visual goal, physical tension, realized in dexterity and accuracy of movements, satisfaction with victory. A. Miller found pre-creative stress in professional physical work - he made massive furniture for his villa. V.V. Mayakovsky noted the combined sublimation in the creation of sexual strength and physical strength. This happens "playfully", i.e. without the maximum expenditure of energy. The poems also reflect creative loneliness, where you need to “run in”, presumably, actively breaking through and breaking with something. The creative process is associated with the transcendence of the darkness of the night - “until the night of the rooks” - and with the special sound of space, and with the victorious, crushing aggressiveness of the poet.

5. An excellent setting for creativity can be eustress a person in the natural environment with the beauty of its landscapes, parks, virgin forests, with the most complex variety of clouds, jets of water from rivers, streams and waterfalls, with the roar and view of the sea surf. So, I.P. Pavlov, based on the concept of two signaling systems in humans, developed for himself a way to tune in to scientific creativity. In the evening, after the bustle of the working day, for a long time looking at the artistic masterpieces on the walls of his apartment (meditating?), He, firstly, “erased” daytime impressions in his mind, and secondly, straining the first signal system (figurative-artistic), he gave rest the second signal system - verbal, discursive-logical. After that, he proceeded to scientific creativity, straining mainly his second signaling system.

6. Moderate extreme external influences (weak stressors) can tone up the creative state: cold, noise, and even such as not always a comfortable posture: E. Hemingway wrote while standing at the desk (but edited what was written while sitting in an easy chair). Even a slight hunger promotes creativity. These moderate stressors “pump up” creativity as a quasi-struggle with some kind of adversary.

8. There are cases when intense creativity was preceded by a seemingly unreasonably good mood, a feeling of joy, cheerfulness. Such eustress raises the author's emotional tension to the level necessary to turn on the creative process.

9. The threshold for a paroxysm, an explosion of creativity can be the sudden sensation that the author has that No no sensible ideas in my head, a painful idea of ​​myself as mediocre and a desire to quit everything. This creative distress should be regarded as a “quasi-avoidance” from solving a stressful problem. In reality, it is an involuntary relaxation. In such cases, perseverance in work is required, sooner or later it may awaken inspiration again.

10. Creativity-awakening relaxation can be intentional, such as during transcendental meditation.

11. Finally, there are a lot of author's quirks, magical actions that tune in to creativity. V. Hugo all his life he worked at a small table, at which he wrote his first work that received recognition. He wrote only with crow feathers, since he was unable to create talented goose feathers. M. Shahinyan When she didn’t write, she put a black stocking on her head like a cap, and wrote, perched on the corner of the kitchen table among the aromas of Armenian food being prepared.

Kitaev-Smyk L.A., Factors of tension in the creative process, journal "Questions of Psychology", 2007, N 3, p. 70-71.

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Talented people inspire people around them. That is why they and the creative process itself are shrouded in many myths and legends. People who would like to create, but are not sure of their abilities, often think that talent is something innate. And you need to first understand if you have it before you create something. However, Daniel Coyle, in his book The Talent Code, cites scientific studies proving that talent is the same skill that a person has worked tens of thousands of times and eventually mastered it masterfully.

We are in website dismantled the main stereotypes about creative people. Using the example of well-known writers, artists and musicians, we will show how masterpieces are actually created.

Myth 1: Deprivation fuels creativity.

We can see what really happens to a person of art in a critical situation, in the film "The Pianist". It shows how Vladislav Shpilman, one of the most talented pianists of the 20th century, survived in Nazi-occupied Poland.

In short: a person has lost his entire family, home and even the right to life. And these events did not contribute to his creative success.

A group of Austrian scientists conducted research proving that small doses of alcohol make a person smarter and more original. To do this, you need to drink about 300 ml of beer or 100 ml of wine.

But increasing the dose slows down the brain and impairs mental functions. And with constant use, the effect will disappear even from 300 ml. After all, a person will need a larger dose for intoxication, and there will be no positive effect on creativity.

What about creative geniuses? Many of them praised drinking both in life and in work. However, they preferred to create sober. Stephen King wrote his word norm during the day, and in the evening he switched to drinking.

Hemingway, though he liked to give advice in the style of "Write drunk - edit sober", diligently sat down to write every day until lunch sober. Perhaps they would be happy to work in intoxication, but the human brain does not allow even great creators to do this.

Myth 3. Drugs stimulate fantasy.

Famous creative personalities loved drugs no less than alcohol. But, as with drinking, their addiction is shrouded in a halo of romanticization, and ugly facts are erased.

Creative geniuses were at the same time ordinary addicts and used illegal substances for the same reason that all drug addicts do: to alleviate their condition. Some of them, like Hunter Thompson, have artistically described their drug experiences. But these were not the author's fantasies, but real hallucinations that all drug addicts experience, regardless of talent.

Simply put, drugs by themselves did not make a single person a brilliant creator. But they killed a lot of talented people.

Myth 4: A creative genius doesn't need a regular job.

Most of the people we know became “geniuses” at a fairly mature age. Some were in their 30s, others in their 40s or even older. All these years they (with rare exceptions) worked to provide for themselves, and were engaged in creativity at their leisure. For many, work has also served as a source of inspiration.

Some people think that a brilliant creator should be like Van Gogh, who lived in poverty and could not sell a single work. However, there are many more counter examples in the art world, proving that talent can manifest itself in any conditions.

Salvador Dali custom-created the Chupa Chups logo, by which this candy is still recognized all over the world. Jack Kerouac, after the success of On the Road, earned his living by writing and had book orders from several publishers. The fees did not prevent him from creating several more major works.

The creative profession is in some aspects the same as any other: it has its own buyer and the author receives money for it. Unclaimed creativity, appreciated much later, is rather an exception.

Myth 6. Geniuses create by inspiration.

For every genius, creativity is a constant systematic work. For example, JK Rowling developed the structure of the Harry Potter books, wrote down the characters and actions of the characters for almost 10 years and knew how it would all end by the time the 1st book was released.

Why is it difficult to create a masterpiece from inspiration? It's all about biology. When we learn something new, a neural network is created in the brain. If we exercise regularly - write, play guitar or football - neurons become covered with myelin sheath. And the more myelin around our chain of neurons, the easier and better new activity is given to us.

But the shell thickens only by constant practice. So constant training makes us more creative, free and original- give you the opportunity to create. If the neural network is poorly trained, we do everything slowly and poorly and remain at the level of amateurs and dilettantes.

Myth 7. Talent is innate

We already wrote above that neural networks are created and strengthened only through constant training. But everything is not so simple. A recent study by psychologists from Princeton proves that training alone is not enough for success.

Ultimately, the one who changes the established approach and traditions becomes more successful. There are many examples: Salvador Dali, who became a preacher of surrealism, or the Beatles, who blew up the world of rock and roll. All these people were so different from everything that was before them that they instantly went down in history.

But there is a big “but” here: a base is needed for a creative approach. By the time he created his masterpieces and hits, Dali already knew how to draw, and the Beatles knew how to play. None of them came up with anything worthwhile in childhood, although they had creative inclinations. To change traditions, you need to understand them, and this takes time..

Myth 8. Creativity is available only to people of art

Some people feel creative in themselves, but cannot realize them, because they work in a “boring” job. But really creativity is available in absolutely any professions. Teachers need to think in an original way in order to interest the child in their subject. Even for a competent distribution of the budget, a certain creativity is required if the budget is limited.

Original thinking is needed not only in art. We use it both at work and in life to find non-obvious solutions to difficult situations or simply to express ourselves.

Some people are not concerned about creativity as such, but about the bonuses that they will receive from it: fame, awards, money. We know a lot of people who really got it all thanks to their talent. But what percentage do they make up of all the talented and even brilliant? Actually very small.

When we imagine ourselves in the place of those who have already achieved success, we make one of the common errors of systematic selection - the "survivor's error". Pay attention to the winners, but ignore the losers- remained unknown during his lifetime or could not feed himself with creativity.

If you want to sober up yourself, read the biography of Kafka: the current literary genius was once an ordinary writer, worked as a clerk all his life, lived in one place and died at the age of 40. And he is far from the only genius with a boring biography. Talent is not a guarantee of a bright life, you should not hope for it.

Burned about 60 paintings.

There are many myths about talented people, but most of them are far from the truth when it comes to facts. The geniuses known to us expressed their abilities in completely different ways, had different inclinations, character and way of life. All that unites them is a real passion for their work. What myths about talent prevent you from being creative?

Neuroscience paints a complex picture of creativity. Scientists now understand that the nature of creativity is much more complex than differences in right- or left-sided brain orientation (left = rational and analytical, right = creative and emotional). In fact, creativity is thought to be associated with a range of cognitive processes, nerve impulses, and emotions, and we still don't have a complete understanding of how the creative mind works.

From a psychological point of view, creative personality types are difficult to define. They are complex, paradoxical and tend to avoid routine. And this is not just a stereotype of a "tortured artist". Research has shown that creativity involves the interaction of many traits, behaviors and social influences in one person.

« In fact, creative people have a harder time getting to know themselves because they are harder than non-creative people. Scott Barry Kaufman, a New York University psychologist who has spent years researching creativity, told the Huffington Post. " What is the most paradoxical thing about a creative person ... these people have a more chaotic mind».

There is no "typical" portrait of a creative person, but there are characteristic features in the behavior of creative people. Here are 18 points that are characteristic of them.

They dream

Creative people are dreamers, despite the fact that their school teachers may have said that dreaming is a waste of time.
Kaufman and psychologist Rebecca L. Macmillan, who also co-authored a paper titled “ Ode to Positive Creative Dreaming”, believe that mind wandering can help in the process "creative incubation". And, of course, many people know from experience that the best ideas come to us when we are mentally in a completely different place.

Neuroscientists have found that imagination involves the same brain processes that are associated with fantasy and creativity.

They notice everything

A creative person sees opportunities everywhere and constantly absorbs information that becomes food for creative self-expression. As Henry James is often quoted, a writer is one from whom "nothing escapes".

Joan Didion always carried a notebook with her and said that she wrote down observations about people and events, which ultimately helped her to better understand the complexities and contradictions of her own mind.

They have their own opening hours.

Many great masters admit that they create their best work either very early in the morning or late in the evening. Vladimir Nabokov started writing as soon as he woke up at 6 or 7 in the morning, and Frank Lloyd Wright made it a habit to wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning and work for several hours before going back to bed. Highly creative people don't stick to a standard daily routine.

They find time for solitude

« To be open to creativity, one must have the ability to make constructive use of solitude. You have to overcome the fear of being alone.", - wrote the American existential psychologist Rollo May.

Artists and creatives are often stereotyped as loners when in fact they may not be. Privacy can be the key to creating the best work. Kaufman attributes this to imagination - we should give ourselves time to just daydream.

« You need to get in touch with your inner voice in order to be able to express yourself. It's hard to hear your inner creative voice if you're...not in touch with yourself and thinking about yourself." he says.

They "digest" life's barriers

Many of the most iconic stories and songs of all time were created under the influence of heartbreaking pain. Often problems became a catalyst for the creation of outstanding works. In psychology, this is called post-traumatic growth, which suggests that people are able to use their hardships and early life traumas for significant creative growth. Researchers have found that trauma can help a person excel in interpersonal relationships, life satisfaction, spiritual growth, personal strength, and new opportunities.

They are looking for new experiences.

Creative people love to experience new experiences, sensations and states of mind, and this is an important predetermining factor for creative results.

« Openness to new experiences is the strongest predictor of creative achievement.', says Kaufman. " There are many different interrelated aspects here: intellectual curiosity, thrill seeking, openness to emotions and imagination. And all together - this is the engine for knowing and exploring the world, both internal and external ".

They fail

Resilience is practically a necessary quality for creative success, says Kaufman. Failure often lies in wait for a creative person, at least a few times, but creatives - at least successful ones - learn not to lament about it.

"Creative people fail, but really good people fail often", - wrote in Forbes Stephen Kotler in an excerpt about the creative genius of Einstein.

They ask important questions

Creative people are insatiably curious. They tend to prefer to explore life and even when they grow up, they retain the interest of the discoverer. Through active conversations or individual mental reflections, creatives constantly ask themselves a lot of questions as they look at the world.

They watch people

Natural observation and interest in other people's lives sometimes helps to generate the best of ideas.

« Marcel Proust spent almost his entire life observing people, he wrote down his remarks, and this found an outlet in his books., says Kaufman. "For many writers, people-watching is very important...".

They take risks

Part of being creative requires taking risks, and many successful creatives have to take risks in various aspects of life.

« There is a deep and meaningful connection between risk taking and creativity and this is often overlooked. writes Steven Kotler in Forbes. " Creativity is the act of creating something out of nothing. It requires the disclosure of what at first existed only in the imagination. Such an occupation is not for the timid. Wasted time, tarnished reputation, wasted money - ... These are all side effects when creativity goes awry».

They see everything in life as an opportunity for self-expression.

Nietzsche believed that life and the world should be seen as a work of art. Creative individuals are constantly looking for opportunities to express themselves in everyday life.

« Creative expression is self-expression. Creativity is nothing more than a private expression of your needs, desires and uniqueness., says Kaufman.

They follow their true passion

Creative people tend to be intrinsically motivated. This means that they act out of some inner desire rather than outward desire for reward or recognition.

Psychologists say that creative people are excited by exciting activities, and this is a sign of intrinsic motivation. Research shows that simply thinking about your own reasons for acting can be stimulating enough to boost creativity.

They go beyond their own mind

Kaufman argues that the ability to dream is still necessary in order to help us move beyond conventional vision and explore other ways of thinking that can be an important asset for creativity.

« Dreaminess develops to allow us to let go of the present.', says Kaufman. " The brain network associated with daydreaming is the brain network associated with theory of mind. I like to call it the "imagination network" - it allows you to imagine yourself in the future, as well as imagine other people's thoughts..

They lose their sense of time

Creative individuals may find that when they write, dance, draw, or otherwise express themselves, they find themselves " in a state of flux which helps them to create at the highest level. It is a mental state where a person goes beyond conscious thought to achieve a state of heightened concentration and calmness. Then he is practically not subject to either internal or external stimuli that can interfere with his activities.

You find yourself " in a state of flux when you are doing something that you really like, that makes you feel good.

They surround themselves with beauty

Creators tend to have excellent taste and love to be in beautiful surroundings.

A study recently published in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts found that musicians, including music teachers and soloists, demonstrate a high sensitivity and receptivity to artistic beauty.

Here it must be said right away that the justification of one’s own inaction, beloved by many, in the form of waiting for the so-called “Inspiration ..” is an absolutely thankless, senseless and largely infantile occupation. If it suddenly visited you, you need to rejoice, as a sudden gift from heaven, and use it wisely. But you can’t wait for inspiration, you need to create it yourself. And it won't always work. And yet, this is not a reason to stop.
In the creative profession, and in just creativity for yourself (unless, of course, you want to achieve some result, and not use it to “switch”), you need a constant, systematic movement. And often it happens “despite”, and not “thanks” to its condition. Therefore, one of the first conditions for achieving a state of inspiration is self-discipline, work planning, regularity. And, of course, it is not a fact that this will always happen “on the beat”, but the regularity of actions will gradually increase the frequency of occurrence of the desired state.

What can be done to still be in a state of flow more often?
To begin with, you need to study yourself and fix what exactly causes the flow state in you, when it is easy to create, and there is a feeling of being connected to the universe, since there can be no universal recipes. I will share my experience, as well as the experience of other creative people and several observable generations of architecture students.

time of day
Different times of the day (and events in the day) carry different energies - filling and giving, focusing and dispersion, tension and relaxation. It is important to feel them and organize your actions in accordance with this rhythm. I often have the desired state early in the morning, when everyone is sleeping - the space becomes mine, and it is easy to concentrate in it. This has a rationale - the energy of the early morning (before 6 o'clock) is best suited for this. Therefore, at this time you can plan something important and requiring full dedication. For some, this happens late at night (this is exactly what happened to me during my studies), but this is fraught with a gradual loss of health and vitality.

environment around
The space in which the work takes place is important - you need to “tune” it for yourself, as one of the main tools. By definition, a creative person cannot have an “ideal” order, but a cluttered unstructured environment will not add a desire to move forward - usually it crushes with its indistinctness, lack of understanding where everything lies and the inconvenience of being in it. It's nice to know exactly the places of everything that you might need, all the archives of work and storage. There should be ease of orientation and room for maneuver and experiment. It is convenient for me when it is possible to organize two workplaces - for working at a laptop, including planning, reading and writing, and a place for interacting with paints, large formats, possibly layouts or other materials.
Structuring the space with simple Ikea shelving and containers usually helps organize it quickly and cheaply.
But in addition to structure and organization, inspiring content is also needed - in the form of those things that wake up the consciousness, the eye, the hand, tune in to a different perception of reality. The architect Le Corbusier called such objects "objects of poetic response" - his workshop was filled with shells, stones, driftwood and other found objects.

Graphic fixation skill
It is necessary that the hands be friends with different materials (pencils, felt-tip pens, pens, pastels, watercolor, charcoal ..) and be able to easily sketch whatever you want - an interesting fragment of reality, an idea, an image, a picture from a book, an object .. This , on the one hand, gives freedom and confidence, and on the other hand, such bodily interaction when you have no fear, and you are not afraid that something will not work out, but you just take and draw lines, paint, connect - it turns on a special energy a stream in which everything begins to happen according to its own laws, as if “by itself”.

nutrient solution
One of the most effective means is immersion in a nutritious "broth" to rock, manifest, create and cook your own artistic sensation. Such a broth can be created from books, films, impressions and observations of reality, but to a greater extent, of course, it is craftsmen, artists, and other interesting people who give an inspiring impetus and charge for their own actions.
If you not only look at them, but also try to pass them through yourself directly - sketch and write down what is important, what is hooked - it will be deposited inside and become a part of you. You can create entire albums and folders from such self-study, and in the process capture conclusions, thoughts and ideas.

Picture of life or concentrate their meanings
I often want to see before my eyes a kind of “creative assembly point”, in which, in addition to rational information such as calendars, lists, plans, there is something that awakens deep meanings, directly affects the organs of perception and arouses children's excitement to move on. Such a collage-composition of images, notes, photos, interesting graphic leaflets, your own sketches, inscriptions-goals and much more.

Freewriting or streaming writing
One of my latest discoveries. The technique itself is described in many places, including in the book Being an Artist by Julia Cameron called Morning Pages. A method of unconstrained dialogue with one's own unconscious, almost meditation on paper. The point is that every day (better in the morning) you need to write down the flow of thoughts for about 20 minutes (or 3 pages). It can be just a reflection of the thought process or a little more question-directed reflection. The result is from psychotherapy to insight. But here the whole point is regularity. My most interesting things began to happen after 2 weeks of daily writing, and now I use this tool both for changing the state, and as coaching for myself, and as an opportunity to expand vision and deeper understanding.