Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity and Stifle Your Success

Re:Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity and Stifle Your Suc... by vidar on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @09:22AM (#1786974)

The first one "1. Creating and evaluating at the same time" is huge, see what happens in a brainstorming session when someone starts picking apart ideas. The whole session dies.

There is plenty of time later to shoot down the bad stuff.

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Re:Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity and Stifle Your Suc... by allenp on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @09:41AM (#1787022)

Yeah I agree, I think it kind of relates to this: http://www.lostgarden.com/2010/08/visualizing-creative-proce...

Where basically if you don't experiment and then cull, you'll end up too constrained and never find "the good stuff."

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Re:Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity and Stifle Your Suc... by edash on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @01:08PM (#1787911)

I just finished reading a classic book about this called "Applied Imagination." It was written in 1952 and established many commonly accepted ideas about creativity and brainstorming.

I pulled relevant excerpts and posted them here: http://www.youthandyoungmanhood.com/applied-imagination

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Re:Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity and Stifle Your Suc... by Lozzer on Thursday October 14, 2010 @02:23PM (#1791971)

Applies to writing code, documentation, novels too. Create first, edit later.

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