How often does your performance depend on inspiration? Sometimes it’s just necessary to understand what can inspire you. Once you’ve identified your sources of inspiration, try to wake it up. However, don’t expect the inspiration to come by itself. I would like to share universal advice that helps me call on my capricious muse.
Get your inspiration – a good night’s sleep and a morning’s rise with an alarm clock
It may sound trivial, but the alarm clock will wake not only you but your muse as well. Famous theatre director Rupert Gould admitted that the best ideas visit him during a shallow sleep. Rupert Gould: “Choose an alarm clock with a long signal and set it early. Surface sleep is the source of many of my great ideas.”
Some geniuses improve their productivity even during sleep.
August Kekule dreamt about dancing atoms that have settled down on their own in a certain order. When the scientist woke up, he clearly understood what he had been dreaming. This is how he discovered the structure of benzene and aromatic compounds.
How do you find inspiration? Change the order.
A phrase in reverse order, which is displayed in the car mirror
The thinking process is a creative way of generating new ideas and concepts. Changing your usual way of thinking can be the most successful way to get inspiration.
The famous German mathematician Karl Jacobi has developed an inversion in mathematics, explaining that a person should always consider the opposite direction. Interestingly, inversion has become one of the most popular business strategies.
Visit your favorite place
For many creative people, their room where the masterpieces are created is their favorite place. Places, where you work more creatively and productively, are often called habit fields, which means how the environment and surrounding objects interact with the person (Jack Cheng).
For example, Stephen King believes that his muse is always in the room where the writer creates his works. He calls his muse a half-wild animal and claims that the muse cannot be woken until it decides it is ready. Sometimes inspiration can disappear even for months. In such situations, writers experience a creative crisis.
Susan Filipz, artist and winner of the 2010 Turner Prize, believes that train travel is particularly conducive to inspiration. The idea of the novel “Harry Potter” came to Joan Rowling during a train journey from Manchester to London.
Dmitry Rybolovlev is inspired to succeed when visit Skorpios, and Mark Twain found his inspiration in small Bermuda.
Where to get inspiration? Write it down in the opposite direction!
British playwright Lucy Prebble also recommends recording in reverse order. Suppose what feelings your audience would like to experience at the end. Next, think about how this might happen as you get closer to the beginning.
Recording in reverse order increases efficiency and motivates you to create a permanent pattern. By changing your usual order, you will awaken creative inspiration.
