As much as you don't realise it, you ignore most of what you are seeing. It would be impossible to process every little beam of vision, and so your brain implements a kind of filter against anything unimportant . This is why your peripheral vision is pretty fuzzy, and why you don't really process simple factors such as the colour of someones eyes as you talk to them. This natural process means we don't realise how many things we are ignoring during creative challenges. Our brain is only focusing on the most important things, those that seem most relevant. However as we all know creativity stems from thinking outside the box, and this is exactly how to do it. quit your natural process of focus. Definitely easier said than done I admit, however by acknowledging the process rather than not realising it's even happening is one step closer to letting yourself go. While it is important to focus once you crack down on an idea, the initial phase requires you to not focus at all, despite it feeling like one of the most focus-needed phases... |