Transforming Creative Block to Breakthrough - Ep 155
Art2Life
Nicholas Wilton
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
You can actively pursue creative breakthroughs by taking deliberate breaks and trying new activities that shift your mindset from stuck to free-flowing. Creative breakthrough is an overflow state—it's living in higher energy and having more to give of yourself, to your art, to the world.
Living in a state of breakthrough requires creating space and avoiding the pitfall of constant busyness. Documenting and writing down your artistic experiences isn't just about chronicling events—it's a fundamental practice for opening yourself up to breakthroughs and keeping creativity alive.
Revisiting past works, surrounding oneself with inspiring objects, and writing down creative experiences are also key strategies for maintaining a continuous creative state. The feeling of that constant creative flow that comes from simple yet profound practices and they help you stay aligned with your intuitive self.
Whether it's choosing to move past feelings of being stuck, setting up a spacious and comfortable environment, or collaborating with others, this episode is packed with insights that will empower you to embrace creativity as a continually attainable state. Slight shifts in perspective and habitual practices lead to a thriving overflow state of high energy and creativity.
Listen if you are interested in...
- Creative blocks arise from positive overwhelming activities [03:16]
- Baby sea turtles as a metaphor for moving past challenges and obstacles [09:10]
- Create without overthinking to give the best results [11:55]
- Ideas for creative exercises focusing on colors and blind contour drawing [14:08]
- Creating together shifts perspective and inspires creativity [19:56]
- Approach life's challenges playfully to get perspective [22:48]
- Sharing and documenting helps overcome creative blocks [26:41]
- Create space for reflection and play to avoid feeling stuck [30:06]
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| 0:00.0 | Regardless of the results, it's just striking how much people get out of this, how much they like what they're doing, how it reinvigorates them. |
| 0:09.3 | Everybody gets fired up. |
| 0:11.4 | Everyone realizes, oh my God, there's a whole key to unlocking this way of being. |
| 0:17.8 | And this is the doorway into creative breakthroughs. Really, creative breakthroughs are how |
| 0:24.1 | you're going to be. You're always wanting to be primed like this. And that's how you set it up. |
| 0:31.3 | Creative breakthroughs are just when you're making art and you're free and you're doing it in a |
| 0:35.2 | consistent way. The creative breakthrough doesn't have to be Wednesday |
| 0:39.3 | and then you wait three weeks. |
| 0:40.9 | You can set it up so the creativity is breaking through all the time. |
| 0:49.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to the Arts Live podcast. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm wanting to dive into creative blogs. I've been |
| 0:55.7 | traveling a lot and seeing a lot and doing a lot. And sometimes when I am not around my studio, |
| 1:06.0 | things get so busy that it starts to feel like my art is taking a backseat. The story I'm telling myself is that |
| 1:14.0 | I'm kind of blocked right now. And I know this is not the case, but I know a few things about |
| 1:22.3 | this creativity block thing and why it comes up and how to break through this. Because I'm feeling tinges of this and actually I was writing about it this morning |
| 1:32.3 | that I thought I would share with you just how to sort of understand creative blocks, |
| 1:37.3 | but really the flip side of this is how to create a breakthroughs that are part of the creative blocks. |
| 1:50.6 | Welcome to Art to Light, a podcast for the Creatively Curious. |
| 1:55.0 | My name is Nicholas Wilton, and each week I'll help you rediscover not just the art of your life, |
| 2:00.5 | but the art in your life. |
| 2:02.3 | Join me as we explore that perfect blue at twilight, the wild frontiers of art making, |
| 2:07.5 | and the extraordinary joy of finding your ways you go. |
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