Creative Block is Your Brain Saying: “Dead End, Go Back”

September 10, 2021 — Frustration can make you obsessed with finding an answer, but are you asking the right question?

For the past week, I’ve been stuck on a sentence.

I was making good progress on one of my video scripts when “TWACK” — my brain got stuck to the page, like it was a piece of fly paper.

Every day, I sat down at the computer, and I started working on the first sentence of a new section in the script, but nothing I wrote sounded right.

I just didn’t have any motivation. And the more that I tried to force myself to be creative, the more depressed I got.

Hack: Answer → Question

This morning, I reread my script from the beginning, and it occurred to me that the section I was trying to write wasn’t even relevant to the storyline of the video.

I could have spent the rest of my life hacking away at that sentence, but all my brain was trying to tell me by blocking my path was: “Dead end, go back!”

Creative block happens when you try to find the right answer to the wrong problem.

p.s. You can find this article on fthelines.com, along with other stories about #creativity, #minimalism, and #barefoot. Thanks for reading! (: 🖖
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