Limits are fuel. Three colors, one minute, two chords. Watch what you come up with.

Narrow boxes produce ideas an open field never would. With only three colours you have to invent contrast, with two chords you have to make the melody carry the weight, and the solution you find under that pressure is one you would never have reached with everything available. Invention happens at the edge of what is allowed. Scarcity makes you resourceful rather than smaller.

Choose a tight restriction for your next piece and treat it as the game rather than the obstacle. Push past the first workaround you find. Notice which forced solutions you want to keep when nothing is restricted.