There are some things you’ll never understand and some problems you’ll never solve. It’s not all about slick formulas and using the right trigger words. Unfortunately, life is not neat and tidy. Those few really great ideas you come up with will more than compensate for all of the dumb mistakes you make. In other words, take more chances and you’ll succeed more often. It has been said that to increase your success rate, you should aim to make more mistakes. But if you try too hard to avoid failure, you’ll also avoid success. Ruth either succeeded big or failed spectacularly.

That’s because he always swung for home runs, not singles or doubles. However, he was also a master of the strike out.

Most people remember baseball legend Babe Ruth as one of the great hitters of all time, with a career record of 714 home runs. They knew something about their own idea that even the gurus with the best attention-grabbing techniques didn’t know.Įvery path to success is different. Some of the most successful people in the world did what others told them would never work. It’s wise to listen, but when you follow advice without question, it could lead to stifled creativity. This a big problem in any field where there are lots of gurus who tell you their secrets of success. Play to your strengths and come up with lots of ideas first, and then judge their worth later. In order to create more and better ideas, you must separate creation from evaluation. Most people evaluate too soon and too often, and therefore create less. Evaluating means analyzing and judging, picking apart ideas and sorting them into piles of good and bad, useful and useless. You’ll strip your mental gears.Ĭreating means generating new ideas, visualizing, looking ahead, considering the possibilities. Likewise, you shouldn’t try to use different types of thinking simultaneously. No matter how you define creativity, you can’t drive a car in first gear and reverse at the same time. So to help you avoid that, here are eight of the very worst bad habits that could be holding you back every day. I’ve lost my creativity before, and it’s not a great feeling - especially when you need to consistently think of article ideas to write. And like all bad habits, they can be broken if you are willing to work at it. Mental blocks to creative thinking in the brain. Get Your FREE Conversion Assessmentīut, why are so few people highly creative?īecause there are bad habits people learn as they grow up, which are Give us 30 minutes and we’ll transform how you sell online.

Write Like Your Brain Works by Dene Low