Writing Tools: Mindsets
Use these fixed dispositions that determine your response to creative situations.
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# 078
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.
# 064
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.
# 049
I don’t have a venue to perform and there are gatekeepers
Permission Slip
Generating opportunities to express ourselves despite access, audience or affluence
# 058
I’m not special enough to have something interesting to say
Write Mind
Respecting yourself enough document your own ideas
# 028
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
# 026
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.
# 036
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
# 030
I feel guilty about being angry or sad
Staircasing
Giving yourself permission to channel complicated emotions into useful results
# 034
I want to write something remarkable and game changing
Freedium
A permission slip to elevate our own tools
# 039
I don’t have the time or knowledge to read all this
Incompletionism
Extracting value without the burden of knowledge
# 025
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.
# 023
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.
# 040
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
# 035
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
# 006
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.
# 013
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
# 010
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
# 009
I don’t know if my ideas are any good
Perceptual Democracy
Treat everything we encounter with fundamental affirmation and radical acceptance.
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