{"id":3821,"date":"2008-06-30T09:34:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:42:22","slug":"generating-ideas-where-do-ideas-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/generating-ideas-where-do-ideas-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Generating ideas :: where do ideas come from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/desiitaly\/2228883174\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2352\/2228883174_55553bd9d2.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"photo by desiitaly\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest podcast from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshill.org\">Mars Hill<\/a> is a discussion on Creative Theology. <strong>Jeanette Banashak<\/strong> and <strong>Don Perini<\/strong> discuss&#8230; including many of the places creative people generate their ideas. Don says the list comes from an ever changing list by <strong>Charles Thompson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Don suggests that creative people try to utilize these times every chance they can. Look over the list and make note of the places where ideas come for you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taking a bath or shower<\/li>\n<li>Driving<\/li>\n<li>Sitting on the toilet<\/li>\n<li>Falling asleep or waking up<\/li>\n<li>During a boring meeting<\/li>\n<li>Reading<\/li>\n<li>Exercising<\/li>\n<li>Waking up in the middle of the night<\/li>\n<li>Listening to a church sermon<\/li>\n<li>Manual labor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Ideas are gold<\/h3>\n<p>Once you realize where many of your creative ideas come from, come up with a <strong>capturing machine<\/strong>. Create a system for capturing your ideas wherever you are. If you know where your ideas come from, always be prepared to write your ideas down in those situations. Whether that&#8217;s soap chalk for writing in the shower, or a 3&#215;5 card for writing down ideas while driving (please pull over first :-)) be sure and capture your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Some other great ideas are in the podcast, such as activities to help improve creativity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do you tend to come up with great ideas?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related ::<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshill.org\">Mars Hill<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/marshill\/podcast\">Mars Hill podcast feed<\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/marshill\/podcast\/~3\/318251022\/download.mp3\">Creative Theology podcast<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/marshill\/podcast\/~3\/318251025\/download.mp3\">Creative Theology notes\/slides<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest podcast from Mars Hill is a discussion on Creative Theology. Jeanette Banashak and Don Perini discuss&#8230; including many of the places creative people generate their ideas. Don says the list comes from an ever changing list by Charles Thompson. Don suggests that creative people try to utilize these times every chance they can. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/generating-ideas-where-do-ideas-come-from\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Generating ideas :: where do ideas come from<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[469,18,3,13],"tags":[1222,1225,1223,1224,604],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-faith","category-misc","category-music","tag-creativity","tag-don-perini","tag-ideas","tag-jeanette-banashak","tag-mars-hill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-ZD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11116,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions\/11116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}