OBSTACLES TO CREATIVITY

For self-realization, a person needs to engage in CREATIVITY – an activity in the course of which he uses his personal capabilities to create something new, unique.
But when performing creative activities, there are constantly many obstacles that must be overcome. SO:

Lack of self respect
It manifests itself either in a lack of self-confidence and high self-criticism, or self-confidence or arrogance. To overcome this obstacle, you need to develop self-confidence.

Laziness and weak will
They also make it difficult to start the creative process and overcome psychological inertia. To overcome them, it is necessary to train self-discipline.

Rigidity
Firmness, steadfastness in the means used to make decisions and achieve goals. Restricts a person to use new tools that may be more effective and reliable. To overcome this obstacle, you need to develop imagination, flexibility of thinking, learn about the emergence of new means and apply them to solve problems and achieve goals.

Fear of failure, failure
It is a consequence of a lack of experience and the presence of uncertainty in the provision of impacts. Help or advice from a more experienced person, an expert who can give a correct assessment of the risks of the intended impact, helps to overcome this obstacle.

Lack of organization
Having too many things to do and ideas makes it hard to know which ones are important and need to be tackled first. To overcome this obstacle, you need to organize personal goals and affairs into a single reliable system. Such an organization allows freeing memory and consciousness from constant, repetitive thinking about these matters, which makes it difficult to generate new ideas.

Lack of prioritization
In the process of creative thinking, a large number of ideas are generated that need to be implemented. Some are very important and useful for solving the problem. They need to be implemented first. Others are less important and should be put aside for later, put in a queue. But most people don’t define the importance of ideas – their priority. And they try to implement simpler, but less useful ideas. To overcome this obstacle, you need to learn how to prioritize ideas.

Congestion of consciousness
After filling the consciousness with all possible knowledge that can help solve the problem, it must be allowed to rest, relax. But very often this is not done and consciousness is used to solve other problems. Increased workload of consciousness reduces the speed of generating ideas. To overcome this obstacle, you need to consciously take breaks to speed up the creative process.

conformism
Acceptance of other people’s opinions and experiences without criticism and analysis. This personality trait is characterized by agreeing with everything that is in the environment, without assessing whether it is right or not, whether it is optimal or can be improved. To overcome this obstacle, you need to develop critical thinking, everything new needs to be approached with the questions “why, why, for what …”.

impatience
The person wants to find a solution to the problem immediately. But this requires a large amount of source material (knowledge, ideas) and a high level of intelligence development. But when the solution is not found in a short period of time, then the person simply stops dealing with this problem and switches to another, easier one. To overcome this obstacle, you need to train self-discipline, and especially perseverance.

Removing all these obstacles is guaranteed to increase the efficiency and success of creative activity. This, in turn, will accelerate the process of self-realization of a person.