Creativity Lies Behind Leisure, Not Working
By: Osman Soylu
Tags: Health, Productivity, Life, Creativity, Work

Every human being has a unique creativity, though at different levels. This creativity emerges under the right conditions. We think that one of the most important of these conditions is financial opportunities and a comfortable life.

Yes, a person must have the time to allocate the things he has set up in his mind and the resources to allocate them if he has time. On the other hand, we know that people from different parts of the world, despite the limited opportunities at their disposal, create creative works within these opportunities. This would be sometimes a statue, sometimes a car prototype, sometimes a book.

Creativity, by its very nature, means this. Nobody has unlimited possibilities, only some have more, and these are undoubtedly more advantageous. However, revealing something from scratch is, from this point of view, using the available resources to produce something that has never created before.

If we have understood that each of us has a certain amount of opportunities in our hands, and it is possible to make something out of them, let us look at the second important key point to produce something. This is working, as we can all imagine.

It is not possible to produce something that does not exist, without spending a lot of time on it, without labor and thinking. The people we call creative are undoubtedly people who devote a lot of time to their work. But if you think working hard and constantly supporting what you want to do, you’re wrong.

The most important way to increase your creative ability is to create free time and engage in other things. Although this may seem contradictory, the more we evaluate the act of ‘creating’, the more easily we will understand why this is so.

First, we constantly learn something in the field we have focused on, trying to find out something, drown in details; this means that we should close ourselves to any new information that may come from outside within this time frame. Although it is very important to shut yourself out while you are concentrating on a task, the longer it takes, the more naturally the number of new things entering our brains decreases significantly.

Being creative means being as open to new things as possible. The greater and more diverse the number of information and data entering the brain, the greater the potential of the brain to recognize, process and produce something.

Besides, our experiences, what we see and meet outside, whether we are aware or not, add new things to us. The story outside feeds the story ‘inside’.

Second, our brains make a serious effort when working intensively or learning something. And like any muscle group, the brain needs rest to improve itself. You can’t go to the gym every day and train for hours, because the body doesn’t have time to provide the necessary nutrients and supplements, due to the work out the muscles . Similarly, each information entering the brain is a new neuron and the information set is a neuron network.

The brain needs free time to process, make sense of, and regulate these neurons in a healthy way. On the one hand, he can’t learn or do something intensely while thinking about something, because what he can do in a single moment is limited.

In other words, if you increase your mental capacity on the one hand and give your mind a free time to evaluate them on the other, it offers you new information and experiences in return for what you have not done before, or what can be put forward in the context of ‘creating’.

We’ve all experienced it. When an idea comes to mind, it is not when we think the most, but when we think the least or never think. Because in such a timeframe, our brain processes the data and information at its best without any pressure.

The important thing is to keep the balance between the time you spend to produce something and the time you can define as ‘leisure’, even if this time makes no sense to you.