Overcoming Creative Blocks -- How Do You Do it? - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

EricSilver · #10 02-17-2011, 01:44 PM

@tbomachines: Night out on the town, bar to bar. Bring a pencil and pad. Seriously, you wouldn't believe how many good papers have come out of that method.. |
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I do coffee shops and it helps but I keep regurgitating the same old stuff.

@Fulcrum: What sort of projects are they?
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One is a very localized retailer daily deal advertising product. Developed and successfully tested w/merchants last year. Now preparing for a larger marketing push. The other is, again, a localized matchmaking service that actually meets and verifies every member. The web technicals are done; some trial members are online; the pitch to additional members is what’s being developed.

Hatterasguy: Maybe try getting high?
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Cannabis is proven to be a creativity booster. Just ask Sean Paul, Shaggy, Snoop Dogg, etc. But seriously, I did a project with a local high school class about 10 years ago where they had to come up with a marketing plan for an electronic currency. All the kids did good work but one was especially on the mark, to ythe point, and even humorous. The teacher later told me he was a stoner. I told her his brilliant work made me want to go out and get high right then.

@Army: Sudden rush of ideas in a short period and then nothing for a much longer one? If so that's an indication that you go at it too hard in the productive periods and you need to take a rest!
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I’ve been resting for 2 months. But it is possible I simply have run out of ideas, have everything I need, and simply need to assemble them into something workable.

@t walgamuth: an impending deadline always helps.
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Interesting you should say that. A contract assignment I am working on will expire in May and renewal, I discovered, yesterday, I is unlikely. There is my deadline.