I resonate most with your explanation, so can I ask you a question? do you think it impacted your creativity? I feel when I trying to stay on task and cant, is when I come up with most my "creative" ideas
Just as an FYI on the subject of creativity, when I was on medication for my ADHD I lost my creativity in exchange for the ability to stay on task. I didn't notice it at first but after 9 months I could play guitar better than before but I couldn't create music like I could before.
I found it did wonders for my creativity overall because creatively I almost think in puzzles, i piece together ideas and thoughts and it took a while for that to transfer to music, since ive mostly written music by feel, but as I struggled to write music i realized my issue was that i limited myself to that sense of "feel" and explained for myself why i would always feel so much writers block.learning that helped me focus more on my songwriting and building a song over just letting one sort of pop in my head.
It's a hard switch when youre used to something feeling so organic and just spontaneous, but that helps me a lot.
This is exactly it. I always hear people say that medication kills their creativity but for me it was the exact opposite. It like helped me harness my creativity to actually create things that I wanted to create rather than just having random doodles instead of class notes. It's definitely a different approach because I need to put it together but its still there and if anything I can use it way more effectively. Idono. I'm glad you feel the same.
Edit: before the "feel" would guide the creativity so things would just happen. But now I guide the creativity so I get control over what gets created.
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u/oomio10 May 30 '17
I resonate most with your explanation, so can I ask you a question? do you think it impacted your creativity? I feel when I trying to stay on task and cant, is when I come up with most my "creative" ideas