Last Updated on May 14, 2023 by Martin
Creativity is an essential component of breaking the mold and pursuing independence, building a business, or pursuing other significant endeavors that go against the norm.
Mind Mapping and Brainstorming: Effective or Just Brain Farts?
Mind mapping and brainstorming can be effective tools for encouraging creativity. You could even get together with a few friends, smoke a joint, drink some whiskey, and let your creativity flow.
These approaches can generate clever ideas that you can use to move your life forward, start a business, or simply indulge in daydreaming if that is your preference.
The ideas generated through mind mapping, brainstorming, and pot smoking can be useful and give you the recognition we all crave. This recognition can boost our self-esteem and make us feel cool in other people’s eyes, giving us the sense that we are climbing the social ladder.
The Importance of True Innovation
However, this type of creativity is what I refer to as mainstream creativity!
While it can help you start a business and think more creatively, it is primarily based on achieving recognition that fits into your social status instead of making a significant impact that can change the world.
If you genuinely desire to be creative and make changes, you must go beyond using only words, and mind mapping. You must go beyond sitting in groups where people are too shy or excited to speak up.
You must use all your senses, your body, and your expressions. You must be like a crazy person, sing, dance, or do your own fire dance rituals. You must be willing to be looked at as a foul, being criticized and laughed at.
Back to Our Cave-Dwelling Days
Remember that when humans began using words to express their thoughts, much of our communication and thinking styles were lost. Words are limited and can never fully express the breadth of our thinking or creativity.
Now, imagine how tablets and smartphones will transform our communication methods in a few years! But that is a topic for another article on another day.
Use All Your Senses, Dance, Bend Things
Using all your senses, ways of thinking, and actions, bending things and thoughts, will ignite a fire in your mind that will enable you to create new discoveries and creative ideas that will truly make a difference.
But remember, depending on your personality, you can choose to play it safe and generate ideas that fit into society and make people happy.
Take Your Journey
Or, you can embark on a journey and create something extraordinary! But remember, it will be a challenging journey. People will turn against you, hate you, and call you a madman/woman for your extremely crazy ideas.
However, following your path, taking the heat, and making your discoveries will be worth it in the end.
