All Tools Writing Tools: Mindsets Use these fixed dispositions that determine your response to creative situations.Click below on "taxonomies" to learn types of mindsets, or scroll and search all 68 tools! Assumption 4 Tools Attitude 3 Tools Awareness 7 Tools Belief 1 Tool Decision 4 Tools Filter 9 Tools Intention 9 Tools Language 3 Tools Lens 3 Tools Mantra 1 Tool Meditation 1 Tool Narrative 12 Tools Perception 1 Tool Permission 6 Tools Philosophy 4 Tools All AllAwarenessBlueprintBoundaryChecklistConstraintEquationFormulaFrameFrameworkGaugeLeverModelProcessStrategyStructureSystemTechniqueTensionTrickTrigger # 078 Intention I want to reinvent myself or switch careers Refueling Setting an intention for how you want to experience life and doing your best to thread that through creative endeavors. View Tool # 064 Awareness I can’t find my one big idea Mental Omnivore Allowing anything you think and everything you experience to become part of your creative reservoir. View Tool # 058 Permission I’m not special enough to have something interesting to say Write Mind Respecting yourself enough document your own ideas View Tool # 049 Permission I don’t have a venue to perform and there are gatekeepers Permission Slip Generating opportunities to express ourselves despite access, audience or affluence View Tool # 026 Belief I don’t have any excitement around a new creative project Aspirational Affluence The ritual of reminding ourselves that the word is an extraordinary place where dreams are had and followed. View Tool # 023 Philosophy I can’t focus on just one creative project at a time Polyamorous Creation Pursuing relationships with multiple creative projects, with a full knowledge and consent of all partners involved. View Tool # 040 Philosophy I’m not creative, or I’m busy and don’t have time to write Creativism Philosophy of reinvesting their success into new tools to serve their inventive undertakings View Tool # 036 Filter I can’t do creative work in such dire times Upsiding Using the placebo power of an optimism filter during traumatic experiences to get more of what you want View Tool # 035 Assumption I take too long to put stuff out, or I spend an hour writing one email Innovation Economics Optimizing your creative process for quantity and speed before quality View Tool # 025 Awareness I want to be better and change but I can’t take action The Willies Focusing on your capability to do something, rather than you emotion directed toward the attainment of something. View Tool # 030 Permission I feel guilty about being angry or sad Staircasing Giving yourself permission to channel complicated emotions into useful results View Tool # 034 Permission I want to write something remarkable and game changing Freedium A permission slip to elevate our own tools View Tool # 039 Permission I don’t have the time or knowledge to read all this Incompletionism Extracting value without the burden of knowledge View Tool # 028 Narrative I am afraid of getting rejected and going into a tailspin Rejection Button Responding to setbacks with an optimistic narrative that we can profitably channel View Tool # 009 Filter I don’t know if my ideas are any good Perceptual Democracy Treat everything we encounter with fundamental affirmation and radical acceptance. View Tool # 010 Filter I can’t find my authentic voice and say something original Uniqueness Filtering Focusing on and differentiating your work through the little worlds you investigate to a great, high level, something that fascinates and ignites you View Tool # 006 Intention I would love to write more, but I’m not sure where to start Seasonality Aligning yourself with nature’s timing of creative inhaling, pausing and exhaling. View Tool # 013 Awareness I’m not inspired right now and need to produce novel ideas Awareness Plan A metacognitive procedure or mental recipe for perceiving and thinking about the environment around you, a lens for interacting with the world View Tool « Previous 1 2
