Take a walk without headphones. Your own thoughts deserve a turn on the speaker.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
Your own thoughts need a gap to appear in, and a constant feed of someone else’s voice never leaves one. Walking with nothing playing feels slightly uncomfortable at first, because you meet the boredom you had been covering. Then the backlog starts arriving, half-solved problems, things you have been avoiding, the occasional good idea you had no space for.
Take one walk this week with nothing in your ears. Twenty minutes is plenty. Bring your phone only to write things down, and expect the first ten minutes to feel like a waste.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What would you hear walking home with nothing in your ears?
MORE IN CREATIVITY & ORIGINALITY
- Creative block is usually an empty tank. Go take in something new before you try to put something out.
- Ten half-finished projects teach you how to start. One finished project teaches you everything else.
- Nobody cries at a song called “Missing You.” They cry at the one about the bus stop where you used to wait.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.