entamewitchlulu:theimaginatrix27: yrretsej:emstantinople:notes on creativity as a cycle between
entamewitchlulu:theimaginatrix27: yrretsej: emstantinople: notes on creativity as a cycle between active production + dormant recovery. let your brain rest! the best infographic I’ve ever seen on the issue. how come it doesn’t have a gazillion reblogs, it’s so important! Hey, could someone caption this? I hate it when information I really want to have is in an infographic where I can’t see it with my screen-reader. :( Image caption:Creators feel pressure to spend every second creating, but creativity is a cycle between active productivity and dormant recovery.[image: a figure eight cycle, left hand is red, right hand is blue, middle is grayed out][left column beside cycle, in red]: Action - output, execute ideas, high energy production[middle grayed out part label]: middle ground for sketching and experimenting[left column beside cycle, in blue]: Recovery - input (research, read/watch/play stuff), let your brain rest, generate ideasRecognize when you have creative energy and use that momentum to make stuff.Let yourself have do nothing days.Your brain needs rest - input and no output. Recharge![image: sideways figure eight with small bit on left in red, the rest in blue] Burnout requires longer recovery period[image: sideways figure eight with most in red, right side in a little bit of blue] Momentum can carry you through a period of super creativity. Make everything -- source link