Yes, You ARE Creative: A Digression
January 12, 2009 Filed in: Commentary
I keep promising myself to finish my self-proclaimed
trilogy of posts regarding creativity, but I’m just
having a hard time summing things up. I’m also
promising myself not to pull a Douglas Adams and create a
five-part trilogy! I’m just going
to make a quick note right now.
The solution I discovered was simple and elegant. You can read about it right here. It was so easy, it became difficult.
Sometimes you have to be able to release yourself from analytical left-brain thinking to find a solution to a problem. In the case of these Keynote themes, I found my answer on a lark. It was a simple moment of, “What if I try this?” Unexpectedly, it worked.
Part of being creative is opening ourselves up to those unexpected solutions. It’s listening to that little voice that says, “This might just work.” That voice is nothing more than your creative spark trying to nudge you down a path you might have otherwise left unconsidered, and who knows? That little voice might just be right.
A Lesson In Creative Problem Solving
I recently set down to solve a problem I had with my custom themes in the newest version of Apple’s Keynote presentation software, and that problem is simply that they look bad in the theme chooser. I hammered at this issue much of the night, opening theme files, examining package contents, and scouring plist files for a hint at how Apple’s themes worked in the theme chooser.The solution I discovered was simple and elegant. You can read about it right here. It was so easy, it became difficult.
Sometimes you have to be able to release yourself from analytical left-brain thinking to find a solution to a problem. In the case of these Keynote themes, I found my answer on a lark. It was a simple moment of, “What if I try this?” Unexpectedly, it worked.
Part of being creative is opening ourselves up to those unexpected solutions. It’s listening to that little voice that says, “This might just work.” That voice is nothing more than your creative spark trying to nudge you down a path you might have otherwise left unconsidered, and who knows? That little voice might just be right.