yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Creativity break: how do you get into your creative zone? | Khan Academy


2m read
·Nov 10, 2024

[Music]

I allow my brain to do the work to get into my creative zone when I have a problem to resolve. Sometimes I just sleep on it, and I let my subconscious mind work through resolving problems and solving problems. Our brains are always at work, like trying to be fragmented, break apart the things that we encounter.

So, I spend a little time thinking about how I can approach things creatively, and then I spend a little time not thinking about those things and allowing my brain and my subconscious mind to have an opportunity to do the work for me. A lot of times when I come back afterwards, I've got a great idea, I've got the answers, and I have new ways to solve and resolve things that I've been thinking about.

To get into my creative zone, I do something that I'd like to call productive procrastination. I start what I'm working on way before it's due, and then in fits and starts, I work well, giving my mind permission to wander to things that absolutely are not on the agenda. It's encouraged some of my most creative experiences—some of my best songwriting, educational videos, and even scientific breakthroughs—while I was supposed to be working on something totally unrelated.

And this won't work for everyone, but my mind is most creative when it's free to go on unplanned adventures. Good music also helps; a great playlist to me is worth its weight in gold. My playlists are special because they only include instrumental music and songs in languages that I don't actually speak, so my thoughts don't get too pulled into the lyrics themselves.

More Articles

View All
The present tense | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy
Hello grammarians! Welcome to the present tense, or that which is happening right now. The present tense is how we talk about things that are happening in the present moment, like “I eat a donut.” If I say that, you know, if I say it that way, it means i…
This Video Will Hurt
Please, put on your headphones – I promise that there won’t be any loud sounds, but this video is going to hurt. There’s a study about hypersounds and how they cause headaches: these sounds are too high-pitched to hear – like the one added to this video, …
The reason why your life is so boring and how to change it
You wake up tired. You work for long hours. You come back home and rather doing something you truly enjoy, you either pick up your phone and turn on Netflix and simply waste your time. You already know hitting the gym, reading a book, or going for a simpl…
This TRANSPARENT ENGINE is Fascinating (How Engines Work) - Smarter Every Day 292
Where should the camera be? Oh, wherever. [Smashed the Gas] HOLY…. ENGINE ROARS Hey, it’s me, Destin. Welcome back to Smart Every Day. We have explored internal combustion engines on this channel, and I think they’re amazing. In the past, we visited a You…
Inside the Epic World of Bertie Gregory | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic
We’ve got something new this week! Our colleague and National Geographic Channel’s executive producer, Drew Jones, is going to take us behind the scenes of Epic Adventures with Bertie Gregory. I’ll let him and Bertie take it from here. You ready? I’m Bets…
Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money? by Michael Seibel
Why does your company deserve more money? Sometimes the hardest conversation I have to have with the founder is when they’ve spent their 1 to 2 million dollar angel round but haven’t found product market fit. Unfortunately, I have to ask them a very unfor…