Feeling stuck sucks. How do you get past a creative block when you’re brainstorming? I want to help you learn how to ask the right question so you can find inspiration and move forward.
What is A Wrong Question?
The first thing you have to do is realize that you are asking the wrong question. This is the hardest part. What is a wrong question, and why is it a problem?
A wrong question can result from a number of things, which we’ll cover below. We ask the wrong question when we get fixated on approaching a problem from one direction, in one way. What happens is we keep getting stuck in the same place or with something that doesn’t quite fit.
This is a problem in any area of life. Let’s say your kid is having tons of trouble in math. We might spend more and more time studying with them, but it might not make a difference. This can get amazingly frustrating. The temptation is to work harder and harder and study more. In this situation everyone gets more and more frustrated, and no progress is made. But what if it turned out that your kid just needed glasses? Or maybe it’s not a what but a where: they might need to study in a different location to get a better result instead of simply studying for longer and longer periods.
Lets go for a creative example. I’ve worked on a site before and I just couldn’t get the look right. I couldn’t find what I was looking for. I tried using different colors on my website, different fonts, different layouts. But then I tried a new approach. I switched over to a new grid system and it was like magic. Everything fell into place.
Artist Andy Goldsworthty: How to Create Art from Nature
Artist Andy Goldsworthy is one of those artist I can’t believe I didn’t know about until recently. What he does is unique and amazing to see. He creates artwork from what he finds at a specific place in nature. He creates the work on-site. He doesn’t just use bits of nature from all over, or take his “ingredients” home to create.
My personal favorite Andy Goldsworthy piece
About Andy Goldsworthy from his website:
Check out some of these awesome photos of Goldsworthy’s work. Also make sure to check the clip from “Rivers and Tides,” a documentary about Goldsworthy, below.