Thursday, November 29, 2007

How to Avoid Thinker's Block

I found a post on Scott Ginsberg's blog (HELLO, my name is BLOG!) to be interesting and enlightening.

I know that for myself, I have difficulty with over organizing and over analyzing in such a way that it hinders my thought process. Scott suggests that you stop organizing and just get everything down. I can see the benefit in this, but I still think there needs to be some sort of organizational structure to recording your thoughts. If there isn't then you'll have to search through massive lists of ideas and thoughts to find one specific one that you may be looking for. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to overcome this? I think one way may be to keep your thoughts and ideas in a MS Word file so that way you can perform a search for keywords.

Here are the 15 ways he suggests to avoid writer's (thinker's) block:
(click here to see the entire post)

1. You need to read everyday.
2. Copy your notes.
3. Write everything down.
4. Everything communicates something.
5. Soften your eyes.
6. Think on paper.
7. Capture, capture, capture.
8. Write morning pages.
9. Exercise everyday.
10. Easy does it.
11. Perpetually hunt for insight.
12. Prime your brain.
13. Stop organizing.
14. Ask and you shall receive.
15. Punch yourself in the face.

1 Comments:

Blogger hellomynameisscott said...

Thanks for the link love J dub!

November 29, 2007 4:24 PM  

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