![]() So when we experience a creative failure, our brains toss out vivid images - not just vague memories, but “scenes” - of past failures. “The tricky part is that our brains conjure governing scenes automatically - they arise from the unconscious. Tomkins coined the term “governing scripts,” and Kaufman built on his work, later coining the term “governing scenes ,” which are the mental images of past experience that our brains conjure when we come across a “trigger” for that experience,” according to Psychology Today’s David DiSalvo. Tomkins and Gershen Kaufman, devoted much of their careers to figuring out why shame wields so much power in our mental lives. There are a couple of components to it, but here’s what I found most fascinating: “Two more great psychologists, Silvan S. There is a psychological component to our lack of creativity, however. But then you have to spend half the meeting debating whether multi-color butterflies are better than one color, because it could be distracting, and someone else pipes up about patterns or spots on the butterflies, and suddenly you begin losing your mind over some dang butterflies. In this app, someone says, “What if we make the butterflies different colors?” Most butterflies are, in fact, different colors. Think of it this way: We’re in a brainstorming session trying to create an app for … butterflies (sure, let’s roll with that). What exactly is anchoring, though? Anchoring occurs during a brainstorming session when “the group gets ‘anchored’ to this initial idea and simply can’t let it go, spending too much time on it, and using it as the bar that all other ideas are measured against.” You can see how this could prevent the flow of ideas, right? Everything else afterwards is judged on its relative merit compared to that piece of information.” With anchoring, we tend to put undue weight on the first idea of piece of information we are presented with. Before you know it half the session is gone and nothing has really been accomplished. Because brainstorming requires every idea to be given its due, the group runs with this first idea, discussing the idea even when everybody knows that it is bunkum. As the graphic design website Canva describes, brainstorming sessions begin when “someone says something obvious. The answer is simple, isn’t it? Just brainstorm, right? Actually, you can’t just brainstorm. How do you know that cure hasn’t been attempted? What about that book? Hasn’t it been written? How could you possibly spin these situations to think of the problem in a new, original way? However, there’s about 7 billion people on this Earth trying to make their mark too. We all want to make the biggest box-office hits of all times (or at least I do), create a cure for cancer, or be the next Van Gogh (but please, nobody try the ear thing). There’s only so much we can do at this point, right? Wrong.Ĭoming up with an original idea at this point feels sort of like finding a single, perfect snowflake in a blizzard. And for the more cynical of us, this is completely useless. We’re supposed to be always thinking, always coming up with ways to change the future, to make a difference. I, for one, have an arbitrarily hard time trying to find new angles to look at certain stories. And this isn’t just a concern in our English classes, where we’re now supposed to “think for ourselves.” Yeah, easier said than done. No matter who you are, be it a writer or a dancer, or maybe a budding scientist, there is a constant struggle for new ideas in this world. You’re probably thinking, “what kind of choose-your-own adventure garbage is this?” But my point stands. ![]() And the only way to get out it to come up with an original idea. ![]() Perhaps it’s an abandoned oasis? A forgotten ice cave? A pit of quicksand that wasn’t marked on your map? Whatever it is to you, you’re stuck there. And you find yourself falling and falling and falling, down into the trap awaiting your presence. Your surroundings blur around you at this point, are you in a jungle, maybe a desert, possibly a tundra? Too wrapped up in these thoughts as you run, you miss the slight rise from the ground hidden by the foliage, snow or sand … whatever would fit the environment. Maybe next you’ll realize that your legs are throbbing, and you can’t possibly run for a second longer. The first thing that registers in your adrenaline-fueled mind is the fact that your heart is thundering in your chest. ![]()
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