Isn’t it funny how sometimes when you’re under pressure, thoughts and ideas of all the cool stuff you could do come a mile a minute, then when you have all the time in the world…
(cue tumbleweed)
Nothing…?
Maybe something to do with being under pressure or percieving yourself to be under pressure stimulates a need for ideas and thoughts to synthesize in creative ways, as opposed to when you’re at rest (or have lots of time) when the brain doesn’t (or doesn’t have to) make connections that fast.
Perhaps that’s why giving yourself deadlines and sticking to them seems to work quite well, rather than leaving a project with an open ended completion date. Also giving yourself less time that than would comfortably required seems to be what is necessary to perform creative miracles.
Also with less time, making a decision becomes more important. With more time to consider something you can succomb to consideration paralysis where you end up not making much progress at all.
So in summary the equation appears to be:
less time + more pressure + important decisions made quickly and decisively = more ideas.
As for the quality of ideas, its hard to say if they are better or worse, but there are definately more, which might be useful for you.
Check out the next post ‘Becoming Mr. Scott – Why Giving Yourself Less Time Helps You Work Miracles’.
