If it’s high time to finish your resume - term paper - report - diploma - article, if a seminar - webinar - meeting - presentation - training is coming up, and “the horse has not yet laid down”, I invite you to do a few simple steps! Let’s help ourselves to our loved one and awaken our inner creator, the one who so brilliantly fit into an interesting task, and now he’s a little tired, or the weather outside is not the right one, or the water has been turned off, or the routine is jammed, and the deadlines are running out! 1. Look around, for sure you are surrounded by different objects. Choose any material externally observable object that is not very far from you so that you can see it properly. To help you, I'll give you my own real-life example of using this technique. I was sitting in a very boring line in a completely unresourced public place. I felt dirty in my soul and decided to work on one creative task that had stalled for me and was now causing me a cloudy nausea instead of the bubbles of joy that so easily lifted me to creative insights quite recently. To be honest, it was not easy to even think about it, but since my soul is already sour, why not knock the wedge out with a wedge? “You recommend it to clients, so let’s work hard yourself too!” The last argument spurred me on, I began to wonder if the method would work now, when the energy has dropped so much that you’re too lazy to even look around and choose an object? There was, it must be said, nothing to focus your attention on. Dull wall panels, shabby chairs, a filthy non-working cooler in the corner and a lonely half-crumpled plastic cup on the table nearby. “Perhaps this glass should be used for technology? - I thought languidly, - A more boring object cannot be found! Even if it’s difficult for me, maybe I’ll activate in response to the challenge!” I reluctantly focus on the glass. Dear reader, I hope you have also already chosen an object for yourself. If not, then do it right now, do not read to the end, otherwise this technique will not give you the maximum effect. It works best the first time! Look around and choose the first thing your eyes fall on. Happened? Great, congratulations, you've taken the first step. Let's move on! If you are reading this article, it means that the problem that has stalled for you has already been blinking a red light in your brain for quite some time. Formulate what specific problem you need to overcome? I formulated my “plug” problem as follows: “What topic should I choose for the final lesson with teenagers to make it fresh and interesting? And so that you don’t have to prepare for a long and tedious time!” Write it down in the notes on your phone, record it. Re-read to make sure that this is exactly the barrier that, by breaking through it, will help you move towards solving your problem. Change the wording and clarify it. Going slowly and thoughtfully is the key step. To accurately name the target is to almost hit it! 3. Look at the object you have chosen. Imagine what it feels like, touch it if possible! Try to imagine and feel what it tastes like? No! Don't bite or lick if you're not sure of hygienic safety! What if I licked that crumpled glass - a nightmare! I just imagined how I could lick its edges and swallow the remaining water... To be honest, I felt disgusted, even disgusted! “These are risks, this is experience. Let’s move on, I wonder where I will end up” - this is how I encouraged myself, and don’t skimp on words of encouragement for yourself! Try to imagine what the object smells like? Doesn't smell at all? And if you could smell it, what would it be? Or maybe he makes sounds? Listen...My glass can creak if you squeeze it in your hand or step on it with your foot. Great, we did it, let's move on! Now let's Google it. I googled it like this: “Plastic cup sayings of great people.” I must say that I wrote this as a joke, absolutely sure that no great thinker told the world anything about such nonsense. But I was wrong... Have you Googled it yet? Read it carefully, there will be memes, aphorisms, political articles... Surprise? Well, here you areI doubted it! To be more scientific, read about the history of your object, about the founding fathers, and application options. Immerse yourself in the topic! When I immersed myself in studying videos with interviews with leaders of superpowers about the action-packed story of my plastic cup... you won’t believe it, the line started at incredible speed and the tedious paperwork with documents - like a forced pause in studying exciting content - only warmed up my interest in it! In short, be able to stop in time. Well, no more than 30 minutes, spend some time on the World Wide Web and come back so we don’t lose you. If you can do it in 5 minutes, great! Now you know everything about your hero, about your chosen object. You have touched it, smelled it, seen it and perhaps even chewed it, you are aware of its past, present and possible future. This is enough for the next step! Now the great philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche appears on the stage. We need him, and he is already here, kindly ready to help us awaken our creative spirit! Nietzsche says something conceptual: “...if you look into the abyss for a long time, then the abyss also looks into you!” What a turn! While I was looking at this worthless glass, it turned out that he was intently studying me??! I should have warned in advance... maybe I wouldn’t have fit into this technique.... These psychologists, they always do, will lure and confuse. But there’s nowhere to retreat! It’s time for me to turn into a glass to find out what he thinks about me and my creative slippage. You too transform for a while, just mentally, okay? There’s no point in reincarnating physically; unfortunately, I don’t know how to bring you back later. It’s easy to climb up the hill, but going down can be a bit difficult, or even impossible at all... Let’s check how successfully you did! What's your size? What are you made of? Can you talk? What do you smell like? How long have you been here? Which of the greats spoke about you? What are you famous for? Ask yourself something to make sure that you are no longer you, but that object... This was the most difficult step. Now it will be easier, I hope! 6. Observation of a plastic cup: “a lady is sitting opposite me, quite nervous, active. She ambitiously conceived a cool project and now doesn’t understand how to complete it. She, as usual, along the way lost the main goal and got bogged down in details - ladies often do this. I know the answer to her request; she is tormented about what topic to choose for the final lesson with teenagers. Ha! It’s difficult with teenagers; we need to offer them something exciting and interactive to captivate the kids. And this aunty doesn’t want to strain herself and at the same time wants to achieve success! As they say, climb the tree and... And I, a glass, know what topic to take...” Then he brazenly stuck his tongue out at me! Dear reader, have you caught the principle? Write a monologue on behalf of the selected object about the creative “plug” of the person who was looking at this object three minutes ago. Or speak the monologue out loud if you can. Or think it over. No, better write! No one will read it, you’ll delete it later if you don’t like it. Did you manage? Here's the reward! Now grab the gift! Your subject knows something you don't know for sure. Your target knows what you need to overcome the blockage. Return to your human form and write down a gift question from your object: “List ten arguments why I, your plastic cup (insert the name of your object), am the missing link to solve your problem? How exactly do I resemble the answer to your request? Why am I the best topic for a final lesson with unruly teenagers (insert here the question you wrote down in the second step of this technique)?” Your object is a metaphor for the answer to your question, the solution to your “plug,” an image of an ideal solution. Don’t slow down and don’t fall into criticism, urgently write down everything that comes to mind! Write haphazardly, at random, without analyzing. Just record it. Here’s what I came up with: “The walls of the glass unite in one space what’s inside, enclosing the water. Moisture dissolves and mixes and unites. Water is something in which you can dissolve. Dissolve all together, all?