This document provides tips for overcoming creative block. It suggests asking what-if questions to spark new ideas, breaking large projects into smaller pieces, sleeping on ideas, eliminating distractions by disconnecting from technology, stimulating the senses by working in new locations and positions, gaining momentum by starting to work on anything, listing known facts and challenging assumptions, listening to music to trigger memories, pushing creative limits, and creating deadlines to motivate completion.

1. OVERCOMING CREATIVE BLOCK

2. ASK WHAT-IF
QUESTIONS

3. WHAT IF IT
WAS A
CIRCULAR
SHAPE?

4. WHAT IF IT
COULD FLOAT
ON WATER?

5. CREATIVE
OVERWHELM

6. BREAK IT INTO
BITE-SIZED
PIECES

7. SLEEP ON IT

8. ELIMINATE
DISTRACTIONS

9. DISCONNECT
FROM THE
INTERNET

10. PUT YOUR
PHONE INTO
AIRPLANE
MODE

11. STIMULATE THE
SENSES

12. TAKE YOUR
PROJECT TO
ANOTHER
LOCATION

13. SIT IN A
DIFFERENT
CHAIR

14. GAIN
MOMENTUM

15. JUST GET
STARTED ON
SOMETHING…
ANYTHING!

16. FACTS AND
ASSUMPTIONS

17. LIST THE
KNOWN FACTS

18. CHALLENGE
DEMOGRAPHIC
ASSUMPTIONS

19. LISTEN TO MUSIC

20. HEAR YOUR
CHILDHOOD
SONGS TO
TRIGGER PAST
MEMORIES

21. PUSH THE
LIMITS

22. PLAY WITH
SHADES AND
HUES

23. CREATE YOUR
OWN DEADLINE

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