How to Get Ideas by Jack Foster

Author:Jack Foster
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2007-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

Next time you have problems solving a problem ask yourself: “What assumptions am I making that I don’t have to make?” “What unnecessary limitations am I putting on myself?”

Set Some Limits

“Wait a minute,” I can hear you saying. “Didn’t you just tell me not to put any unnecessary limitations on myself? Now you’re telling me that I should set some limits. What’s going on here?”

The limitations I talked about earlier were the imagined boundaries, the unconscious assumptions we often make about the nature of the problem.

Now I’m talking about the need to have a framework within which to work at finding a solution.

I know this sounds like a paradox—creativity needing a framework. “Are you crazy?” I can hear you saying again. “The creative mind should be free to roam, to explore, to seek wherever it wants. Put limits on it and it will shrivel up like a worm in the sun.”

Agreed. It is a paradox. In The Courage to Create, Rollo May calls it a “phenomenon.” But he explained “that creativity itself requires limits, for the creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.”

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