{"id":658,"date":"2018-08-29T18:40:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uahost.uantwerpen.be\/sigwrit\/?p=658"},"modified":"2018-09-03T02:49:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T00:49:41","slug":"stop-being-creative-and-start-creating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/stop-being-creative-and-start-creating\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop being creative (and start creating)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cDoes anyone have any ideas?\u201d<\/em> We\u2019ve all been there. Everyone round the table, thinking faces on, waiting for that something called \u2026 creativity. However, as creative thinker <a href=\"https:\/\/creativiteit.expert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Karl Raats<\/strong><\/a> points out, <em>\u201cDoes anyone have any ideas\u201d <\/em>may just be the most idea-killing question to open any meeting, which often turns into a game of <em>\u201cguess what the boss is thinking\u201d.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why do we have such a difficult relationship with creativity? What happened to that kid that came up with the craziest ideas? As focused adults, we only seem to call upon creativity when things go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, to be more creative, we need to get <em>ras-ional, <\/em>with RAS being the acronym for <em>Reticular Activating System<\/em>. It\u2019s the function of the brain that enables us to filter out the clutter and focus on what\u2019s relevant. However, if we only focus on what\u2019s relevant, our new solution will always resemble the old. And, well, then it\u2019s not really a solution.<\/p>\n<p>Time to <em>reprogram the RAS<\/em>, is what Karl says. He challenges you to write down one idea a day. At first, this will seem easy: you already had some ideas anyway. Then comes the hard part: you\u2019re out of old ideas, and you need to go out there, coming up with silly thoughts. But that\u2019s good news: you\u2019re now reprogramming the RAS.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, <em>creativity<\/em> is just a word invented by a 17<sup>th<\/sup>-century poet. It\u2019s a label, more than anything else. Let\u2019s stop <em>being creative<\/em> and start creating, Karl concludes.<br \/>\n\u2014Mike Beyers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDoes anyone have any ideas?\u201d We\u2019ve all been there. Everyone round the table, thinking faces on, waiting for that something called \u2026 creativity. However, as creative thinker Karl Raats points out, \u201cDoes anyone have any ideas\u201d may just be the most idea-killing question to open any meeting, which often turns into a game of \u201cguess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-keynotes","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}