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Creativity on-the-Spot
23/01/2010
If we need to 'Mind the Gap' in order to gather our thoughts when put on the spot, we doubly need to do so when we need to create new ideas. We need a creative pause if we are to generate new ideas, alternatives and fresh options. If fact, the 'Creative Pause' is a technique recommended by creativity guru, Edward de Bono. His method is just to have some 'time out' and trust that the creative mind will 'fill that gap' - and it does. However, we can actually catalyse the process by borrowing an idea from other creativity gurus, Tony Buzan and Vanda North. When I attended Vanda's programmes on Buzan's Mind Mapping, she was quick to point out how the mind likes to fill gaps. For this reason, she would recommend leaving lines on a creative mind map, without any content on them. Her point was that the mind will then be seeking to fill this gap.
We've all experienced this when conversing with friends who insist in finishing our sentences for us! They jump into the gap with 'created' content! If you are put on-the-spot and asked to come up with ideas and options, putting the core concepts around a central focus and then branching out with some blank twigs will really provoke your creative mind to fill those spaces.
The Japanese Daruma Doll uses the same concept. When you begin a project, you colour in one of the doll's blank white eyes. The doll then sits there partially gazing at you - urging you to finish the project. (I'm not sure, in the light of our time management programme's principles, that I like this approach, but it is essentially tapping into the same mental principle.)
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