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Mix up your creative process

Name: Mix up your creative process
Uploaded: 2022-07-01T11:00:12+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: A short spoken piece advising creators to supplement computer-based work with tactile, physical, and mobile methods to stimulate different parts of the…

1 Jul 2022 · 0 min

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A short spoken piece advising creators to supplement computer-based work with tactile, physical, and mobile methods to stimulate different parts of the brain. Recommends concrete practices — pen and paper, sticky notes, marker-board mind maps, walks with voice notes, or transferring ideas into Notion — to diversify creative workflows.

You can't always just create from behind a computer screen. The glass of the screen separates us from what we're making, and more tactile methods can get different parts of our brains moving. So try mixing up your creative process. Use a pen and paper. Shuffle sticky notes around to organize your thoughts. Get a marker board and draw a mind map on it. Go on a walk and record voice notes of your thoughts or type it all out into notion. Use any and all of these methods to get different parts of your brain working, because.