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With repetition, you can create your own creative cues that signal your mind to action. Cue, action, reward-repeat! That is the habit formula. The human mind develops habits in a well-documented psychological sequence: a cue or trigger à followed by a routine à followed by a reward of some type.

Write Everyday at Approximately the Same Time During Your Peak Mental Time.

Some days will be harder than others and output will vary wildly, but the effort of exercising your creative mind daily will help you unleash your inner muse, focus your thoughts and sharpen your insight. If you miss a day or two, don’t beat yourself up about it, just get back to writing.

Write Everyday, Seven Days a Week, 365 Days a Year.

To my knowledge, there have been no credible scientific studies on optimal time spent to trigger peak creativity, but some clues can be found from those successful creatives who self reported what worked for them, as well as through my own experience as a creative and manager of other creative types.įor our purposes, I will focus on writers as it is where I have the majority of my experience, although there is reason to believe these tips will apply to any type of creative pursuit. How much is enough or too much? The sweet spot seems to be 1-4 hours a day.

If you are a writer, write! If you are an artist, practice your art. The more you create, the more you CAN create. Much like lifting weights, where you become progressively stronger by lifting more weight, you become more creative through the effort of creation. In other words, creativity is derived more from muscle than a muse. Your mind is a complex biological computer, Scott Adams of Dilbert fame so eloquently describes as a “moist machine.” What we have learned about the mind is that by using it you strengthen and focus it. Thousands of years after the Muses reigned, science has helped us develop a clearer picture of what goes on in the mind when it is creating something new, or making a new connection to an old idea.

It seems, almost, that this notion is more of a rule than it is an exception. Mason Currey details many examples in Daily Rituals, How Artists Work of almost the exact same phenomenon across creative disciplines. In his memoir, On Writing, Stephen King describes how he often feels he is just a conduit through which characters reveal themselves, and he even claims to not know the ending to stories until they arrived. In modern times, most creatives no longer believe in the Muses, but many successful artists, writers, composers, and scientists describe common phenomenon of ideas seemingly arriving fully shaped, as if from outside of themselves. They had to be enticed in order to deliver inspiration, or nothing new could be created. These Muses were the notoriously fickle daughters of Zeus who presided over creativity. In ancient times, the Greeks believed that all inspiration for art and science was delivered to mankind via The Nine Muses.