This time I wanted to briefly mention something that I have found really useful for coming up with new routines or tricks, and is in fact the biggest reason I decided the make the Salaryman video last year. Is it some mind mapping technique? Maybe daily research into other types of juggling? Actually, nope! It was from simply being bored, and having nothing else to do or think about to pass the time.
Now I'm sure most people get bored in class or at work all the time, but there's a big difference between idly switching between Facebook and Twitter all day and actually just sitting back and letting your mind wander off somewhere. It's usually in those moments of total boredom that my brain seems desperate to come up with something for me to do and somehow leads to a weird juggling idea popping into my head. I can't explain why or how the idea comes about, it just does, and once something has been randomly thought up you can then concentrate and go deeper into the idea and try to see if it could lead to other variations or something new.
Seeing as there's no "trick" to letting your brain come up with something unexpected, all I can say is don't always feel the need to keep your brain stimulated during those boring moments, if you let it run it's course some totally new unexpected idea might pop up which you would otherwise have never thought of. Meetings and classes are generally super inefficient with plenty of wasted time, so it's no surprise that these times tend to be goldmines for ideas if you are in the right mindset.
I'll leave it at that for now, I should try to keep my posts more concise to save on the translation effort and also get a bit more output going...
Now I'm sure most people get bored in class or at work all the time, but there's a big difference between idly switching between Facebook and Twitter all day and actually just sitting back and letting your mind wander off somewhere. It's usually in those moments of total boredom that my brain seems desperate to come up with something for me to do and somehow leads to a weird juggling idea popping into my head. I can't explain why or how the idea comes about, it just does, and once something has been randomly thought up you can then concentrate and go deeper into the idea and try to see if it could lead to other variations or something new.
Seeing as there's no "trick" to letting your brain come up with something unexpected, all I can say is don't always feel the need to keep your brain stimulated during those boring moments, if you let it run it's course some totally new unexpected idea might pop up which you would otherwise have never thought of. Meetings and classes are generally super inefficient with plenty of wasted time, so it's no surprise that these times tend to be goldmines for ideas if you are in the right mindset.
I'll leave it at that for now, I should try to keep my posts more concise to save on the translation effort and also get a bit more output going...
