The Power of Creativity \(Book 1\): Learning How to Build Lasting Habits, Face Your Fears and Change Your Life pdfdrive com

Combining Your Experiences
Work  on  different  things  at  the  same  time,  and  you’ll  connect  them  in  exciting
and unexpected ways.
You’ll form these connections when you’re dreaming, exercising, meditating,
eating, listening to music, in the shower and so on. All you have to do is be open
to capturing these connections when they occur to you.
When  a  connection  bubbles  to  the  surface  of  your  mind  or  when  a
breakthrough  in  your  side  project  occurs  to  you  while  you’re  working  on  your
main gig, write it down in your notepad and carry on with your job.
Your subconscious will take care of the rest.
At  the  very  least,  use  your  day-to-day  experiences  on  the  job  to  lend
credibility to your art.
American writer Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) spent much of his early life
working at a menial job he hated for the United States postal service. He turned
many of his experiences on the job into source materials (characters, anecdotes,
descriptions) for his breakout 1971 novel Post Office.
His  protagonist/alter-ego  in  that  story  even  says  while  bored  on  the  job,
“Maybe I’ll write a novel…And then I did.”