SARK:"In.vention is the natural out.come of creative thinking: to in.vent is to make a new out.let for something to develop.
We are all inventors because we each have the capacity for original thought. New form is the result of focused original thought."
I often feel that my brain hums - it used to buzz but over time it speeded up to a hum. I have so many ideas in one day but very rarely pin them down or let them materialise. This is not to say these are amazing ideas or even any "good" (however one really defines that) but they are my "original thoughts" nonetheless.
I often joke that my weekend job working on a supermarket checkout is my "downtime". It is hardly a mentally taxing job but I suppose actually it is my "uptime" for thinking. I switch the part of my brain dealing with scan-beep-bag-scan-beep-bag on to autopilot and let the rest of my mind play around with creative thinking. My favourite form of invention at the checkout is making up little stories and anecdotes. As a writer at heart, it is words that I naturally tend to use as my means to invent.
I am working on inventing several plot lines for works of fiction (and somewhat faction) at the moment and it was these that I indulged in today after realising that this week of Living Juicy was focusing on inventing.
Inventing in this manner is what I like to think of as "super-creative day dreaming" and I do so enjoy it.
"I am now able to invent my new reality..."
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