Category: Creativity

replace • stop using phone to escape sadness or boredom • carry a notebook, pencil, and sharpener like I carry my phone • read old thoughts

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write • express myself; thinking by writing • affect labeling: name the feeling or belief

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rapid logging — thoughts  ●  actions  =  moods  ◯ events…

• Shapes are the architecture
  • simple to complex
  • organic to geometric
• Colors
  • pallette
  • solid vs gradient
• Objects
  • the physical objects
  • or the mood
• Perspective and form
  • hatching vs solid shadows vs gradients
• Edges and linework
  • outlines and character
    • counters: outlines
      • can be structural or purely visual
    • sharp vs smooth and fluid

creativity

• builds self-awareness: what you make shows you who you are
• encourages exploration: stretching, curiosity, becomes safe and natural
• strengthens intuition
• cultivates confidence: each win adds
• reframes failure as a tool
• strengthens your real inner voice
• deepens mindfulness because of flow

from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV-fI2BCNEo

My pain, expressed as a metaphor, filtered through my personality, becomes art that is familiar to others, but is unique to me. Along the way, I get to know myself, and process the pain into a story I can understand, and therefore, accept. I know what my audience will like better than they know it.…