Psychologists have found people don’t learn well when they are comfortable. Our brains are at rest because we aren’t being threatened. They’ve also learned that we don’t learn well when we’re overly stressed or anxious. Our brains kick into fight or flight and we act on instinct. The sweet spot for learning is between comfort and stress–called the Learning Zone.
I’d like to propose that the Creativity Zone is in the same spot as the Learning Zone.
Great creativity doesn’t happen when we’re comfortable. We are complacent. We are boring. When we’re comfortable we have no desire to make the world a better place because the world is already good enough for us. The world is not the way it should be. We must make it a better place through our creativity.
But we also don’t create well when we’re stressed. Anxiety kills the searching soul that wonders and wanders. The frantic pace keeps us from creating anything of lasting value.
So let’s work to stay within that Learning/Creativity Zone. Let’s keep from being too comfortable. But let’s also relax…don’t stress. The whole world isn’t on our shoulders.
Have you noticed you create your best when you’re in that “learning zone”?
Love this. I totally resonate with that concept of the sweet spot. For me its learning to be at peace with tension (ie relax while being uncomfortable) – when I hit that spot, I am WAY more productive. I’ve been doin some things on this cloudy monday to try to get out of boring mode and get into that sweet spot. here’s what I’ve done:
-researched missions targeting where there is high need (ie. blood:water mission / Charity Water) = not everything is hunky dory in the world
– read the Word – Proverbs has some great truth towards our own deficit = fire under me to realize I’ve got a lot of work to do
– Getting inspired by other artists thru some blogs & vids = there’s great creative work to be done!
that’s awesome! thanks for sharing your creative process 🙂
Love this. I totally resonate with that concept of the sweet spot. For me its learning to be at peace with tension (ie relax while being uncomfortable) – when I hit that spot, I am WAY more productive. I’ve been doin some things on this cloudy monday to try to get out of boring mode and get into that sweet spot. here’s what I’ve done:
-researched missions targeting where there is high need (ie. blood:water mission / Charity Water) = not everything is hunky dory in the world
– read the Word – Proverbs has some great truth towards our own deficit = fire under me to realize I’ve got a lot of work to do
– Getting inspired by other artists thru some blogs & vids = there’s great creative work to be done!
that’s awesome! thanks for sharing your creative process 🙂