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What do you do when you run out of ideas?

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Music and links from this episode

1. Not Locrian by Captive Portal
2. Beautiful Reciprocal (Half Mix) by Captive Portal

Line-by-line notes

1. Today’s episode has a double-edged meaning
2. On one instance
3. I’m discussing the idea of struggling to find ideas
4. And in the other instance
5. The reason I’ve done this episode
6. Is because I’m struggling for ideas
7. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
8. MUSIC
9. No matter what kind of creative person you are
10. An artist, a designer, a musician, a writer
11. You’re going to hit creative block
12. You’re going to hit a point where suddenly
13. You can’t think of any ideas
14. You’re going to go from being an absolute ideas machine
15. Where they come freely and easily
16. To a complete idea vacuum
17. Where nothing exists anymore
18. And that…is scary
19. Different creative people react to this kind of thing differently
20. Some relish the challenge
21. And some get scared
22. It’s OK to feel like that
23. When you trade on your ideas and suddenly your stock has vanished
24. That’s scary
25. I think that a creative shouldn’t be judged on their creative output
26. Although that’s important
27. But a truly experienced creative should be judged on their ability to consistently come up with good ideas
28. And also should be judged on their ability to recover from creative block
29. An experienced creative knows that they’ve not just become irrelevant
30. They don’t get scared by creative block
31. And they have endless strategies on how to overcome such a situation
32. Overcoming creative block isn’t a skill you develop overnight as a creative
33. I don’t even think that’s it’s something that you could teach to a young creative
34. It’s just a thing you develop with experience
35. And pressure
36. And really, doing things wrong and running out of ideas
37. I talk a lot about the creative muscle and needing to exercise it regularly
38. If you’re not regularly flexing that ideas muscle, your creative muscle
39. It gets smaller and harder to use, and it burns out quicker
40. Mood, anxiety and just generally being in a bad mood affects all this too
41. If you’re in a bad place, ideas are hard to come by
42. And that can be a vicious circle that’s hard to escape
43. You’re in a bad mood, you get creative block, it makes you in a worst mood, and so on
44. So creative block is more complicated that it looks
45. It’s hard to combat and hard to come out of
46. Sometimes the only way out
47. Is just get doing
48. Just start writing, designing, drawing,...