MY CREATIVE PROCESS

Throughout our Capstone Research Practicum class, I have learned various techniques that helped me throughout the process of completing my Capstone project. In one session of class, we went through various “Creativity Boosters” that would eventually help me make progress on my animation when I felt stuck. One in particular that helped me a lot was “Mind Wandering” (Bench et al.) I am usually very busy with work for my other classes, particularly for computer science. Due to this, I sometimes struggle with finding time to relax or finding time to simply think. When I scheduled time to do so, I was able to come up with more ideas for my final animation and make more progress with it. It is much more difficult to work out ideas when there are so many other tasks and topics on your mind. Using boredom as a strategy has helped me many times throughout the process of completing my animation.

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Bench, SW, and HC Lench. 2019. “Boredom as a seeking state: Boredom prompts the pursuit of novel
(even negative) experiences.” Emotion. Mar;19(2):242-254.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29578745