Increase your chances of effectively managing the creative process

Words become worlds. Language becomes leverage.

How we structure our speech affects how we perceive and categorize and construct our reality.

Heidegger was accurate when he observed that language is the house of being, and in its home man dwells. And so, if we want to achieve breakthrough results in our creative work, then it will be helpful to learn and employ a robust vocabulary for that experience.

Because once we have a language that permits us to communicate with ourselves and others about our creativity, then we can start to make sense of this otherwise ambiguous process.

Once we start thinking and speaking the words that support our artistic intentions, then we can conceptualize and describe the experience of bringing our ideas to form. That’s just as much of a superpower as the act of creating itself.

Prolific is purpose built to help you do exactly that. Our personal creativity management system teaches you a new lexicon of words and phrases that allow you to converse about creativity. Consider terms like frontloading, haybarning, shitstorming and thumbprinting.

At first glance, these words might seem like gobbledygook to you now. But once you’ve been exposed to them a few times, they soon become a key part of your creative process in the future. Here’s a case study:

Working modular is a term from the lexicon that fundamentally transformed my ability to execute ideas on a high volume, high value basis. The official definition of goes like this.

Working modular is to treat each idea as an uncategorized chunk of creative material; an objective, portable piece of content that accumulates and categorizes into its own structure.

Why? Because in my experience, in any creative endeavor, you win when you approach the work like a builder. If each idea is a prefabricated unit, that makes for an easy assembly and flexible arrangement of the information.

You’re not authoring a book, you’re writing literary modules, the accrual of which become a book. You’re not recording an album, you’re composing musical modules, the collection of which make up your album.

Learning how to work modular changed the way my brain worked. For better and for always. All of my creations, from books to speech to records to films to this very software platform, once started out as modules.

This is how language gives you leverage as a creative professional. It expands your repertoire of mindful awareness, allowing you to notice the opportunities to increase your return on experience everywhere you go.

By building an evolving glossary of what it means to be prolific, you can significantly increase your chances of effectively managing the creative process.

What new vocabulary might facilitate your learning faster?