By Mary Jaksch
Boost your creativity
A guest post by Cheryl Craigie of The Manageable Life
It seemed so easy at first, didn’t it?
Your blog posts came fast and furious. You were excited and inspired. The words came easily.
Then one day you went to your creative well and it was dry—not damp, mind you, but Sahara Desert dry.
As a survivor of the “dry well syndrome,” I can tell you that that this happens to all of us at some point. But it’s not you, it’s your brain.
First, the bad news: Evolution is working against you.
Your brain evolved to be an efficient machine—it looks for easy, familiar answers based on past experience. This works well most of the time, but because of that very success it is hard for the brain to break out of old thinking... More...
