{"id":40,"date":"2009-04-28T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-04-28T08:29:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T15:29:48","slug":"weekends-and-creative-problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/2009\/04\/weekends-and-creative-problem-solving\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekends and Creative Problem Solving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research, create, ignore, perfect. When I am learning and practicing new skills, I have to push myself to remember the &#8220;ignore&#8221; phase of creativity. Letting a problem rest so your unconscious mind can tackle it has long been known as the mark of a diciplined creative. <\/p>\n<p>Telling your own internal task-master &#8220;let me sleep on it&#8221; will yield better creative time after time. <\/p>\n<p>I have a tendency like most ambitious creatives to just stay head down on a problem until I can&#8217;t see the forest for the trees. <\/p>\n<p>Three-day weekends can cure problem myopia better than most tricks for big new skills. It&#8217;s long enough to bring you back refreshed and eager to perfect something. It&#8217;s also long enough to let your subconscious mind make connections that your conscious mind wouldn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research, create, ignore, perfect. When I am learning and practicing new skills, I have to push myself to remember the &#8220;ignore&#8221; phase of creativity. Letting a problem rest so your unconscious mind can tackle it has long been known as the mark of a diciplined creative. Telling your own internal task-master &#8220;let me sleep on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copywriting-tips","category-posted-via-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoenborns.com\/pdxcopywriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}