Comments on: Do You Take Your Creative Rituals Seriously Enough?

By: Every A-Player Needs a Playbook « The Female Phenom

Every A-Player Needs a Playbook « The Female Phenom — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:52:43 +0000

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By: Every A-Player Needs a Playbook « Dig Deep Thinker

Every A-Player Needs a Playbook « Dig Deep Thinker — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:11:26 +0000

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By: What are Your Creative Rituals? (Blog Carnival) | Metal Clay Jewelry

What are Your Creative Rituals? (Blog Carnival) | Metal Clay Jewelry — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:19:32 +0000

[...] I’m not certain I have any. Certainly not anything similar to the ones referred to in this post at Lateral Action about the beautiful rituals of important people. [...]

By: All Things Metal Clay » Blog Archive » What are Your Creative Rituals? (Blog Carnival)

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:29:44 +0000

[...] I’m not sure I have any. Certainly not anything like the ones mentioned in this post at Lateral Action about the creative rituals of famous people. [...]

By: David’s 5-A-Day « Mindapples

David’s 5-A-Day « Mindapples — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:10:23 +0000

[...] to a different item in my music collection and writing something about it. Mark McGuinness has written insightfully about rituals (and avoiding the mundane) [...]

By: Rosanne Bachman

Rosanne Bachman — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:11:42 +0000

As a person who has one foot in the creative camp and the other in the concrete world of facts, I am always trying to make sure the creative side gets its property time. A mundane routine no matter what would never come across my mind and to a certain extend neither would a Creative Ritual. Maybe that is because I am always trying to take my mundane world of facts and make them exciting. There is one exception. When I am preparing for a speaking event, I love to go by any body of water and if the waves are loud enough, shout my presentation to them. It lets me get the emotion out that I want and help with my pace. If no crashing of waves is available, then I do the speech in my head. I guess we all have our creative rituals!

Keep up the inspiration work Mark!

By: E Lavika

E Lavika — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:44:17 +0000

Good article… I agree on your “Creative Ritual” idea. Simply put it this way: if you play a game on playstation, you need to “save” your last game to the memory card, before you’ll be able to “load” it. We try to “load” all the time (Appreciative Inquiry, etc), but we never really “save” our accomplishment. Save your game with “Creative Rituals” so you can move on to the next level…

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:47:07 +0000

Great to hear Lateral Action made the cut!

Would be interested to hear what you make of today’s post about the difference between creative rituals and mundane routines.

By: the Count

the Count — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:11:44 +0000

daily rituals of a graphical designer

3 cups of strong black coffee each with an equally strong french cigarette.

Read Lateral Action feeds (really)
Read BBC news feed

check my deviant art page and channels

upgrade Wordpress Installs and plugins

20 minute walk with my hyperactive french bulldog

shower

clean my mx Revolution mouse, clean my wacom tablett

look at my desktop screen and the tao teh ching quote (verse 23) I loosely translate as “The Steady Force of Attitude”

only then can I begin to create

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:40:45 +0000

Sonia, Chris – sounds like you already have some pretty good rituals. It doesn’t have to be anything elaborate – a special brand of tea or lifting weights is a perfectly good alternative to goat sacrifice.