Staring a new series of guest posts on Matt’s Journal, let me introduce Sam Clarke.
Sam is the creator/owner/editor/lover of the entertaining blog WhatDoIKnow, a journal full of thoughts, opinions and general happenings, a worthy addition to your RSS feeds if you are one of the techies among us.
I’ve been blogging now on various platforms for almost two years, weather it be on a daily basis, or a part of a self-test I experimented with, to see if I could blog once an hour (waking hours) for an entire week. Now, of course there are all varieties of blogs around the net, from work blogs, to journals, right through to technical blogs… But upto until recently I had forgotten exactly the reasons why I had started…
This morning I was asking myself why I have such little creativity, my mind is like a well organized filing cabinet and I tend to not bother trying to draw or be artistic, just because I’ve always found it hard… I’ve always stuck to subjects with more reason to them, Maths and Computing for example.. But whilst trying to discover the reason(s) behind my lack of creativity, I stumbled upon an article.
Another way to encourage and increase creativity, is to write your ideas down. Keep an “idea journal.” If you do this regularly, you’ll notice that you often start having more ideas the moment you start to write. A so-so idea may normally be forgotten, but by writing it down, you may remember it, your subconscious works on it, and it can transform into something very creative.
This article suddenly got me thinking, perhaps the reason I had originally started blogging, was to give myself a space (a notepad if you like) where I could store my ideas, store my thoughts and troubles, then reflect back on them… Subconsciously, I had been training my brain to be more creative, so I put it to the test. The last time I drew a picture was back in school for a Graphic Design project, and the only reason I passed that course is because I already knew what my plan was, I knew what I wanted my final project to do, to look like, and I even knew how I was going to draw it out… This afternoon I started drawing, I didn’t really have any idea what, or why, but I knew I wanted to see if my creative blogging had worked.
I was extremely pleased with the end result…I won’t go uploading the picture, because frankly the image is irrelevant…It’s the fact I had (without being aware) managed to retrain my brain into a form of creative thinking.
Perhaps blogging, writing and general jotting are things we should all do? Did you know only 5% of people aged 18 and upwards, are classed as having creative minds? And 95% of children aged 5-7 fall into the same category… Maybe we should all spend a moment to write down those ideas we get from time to time, or maybe we should all write a blog?
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