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Anonymous Fri Jul 15 17:35:29 2011 No.1929540 [Reply] [Original]

As I get older I feel like right side of my brain is getting smaller, so small it makes me feel colorless. I feel like I'm losing all my creativity, passion, and my sense of wonder. My spirit needs a jump start. What do I do?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 17:37:29 2011 No.1929546 Isn't that whole left brain/right brain thing a load of nonsense?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 17:38:29 2011 No.1929550 Drugs

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 17:38:29 2011 No.1929552 >>1929546 For the most part, yes. Also, drugs.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 17:40:29 2011 No.1929559 File: 107 KB, 800x595, 1296117594022.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1929546 I just used the picture as a visual metaphor.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 17:42:29 2011 No.1929567 >>1929546 >Mercedes/Benz Yeah, looks like it

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 17:43:29 2011 No.1929570 File: 89 KB, 709x827, 1282164806657.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Drugs Thanks, but that's just not me. I don't want to take the shortcut (no offense).

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 17:46:29 2011 No.1929579 >>1929570 Sometimes, the easy way is the only way.

Anonymous Fri Jul 15 18:21:29 2011 No.1929694

No drugs?

Okay, deliberately sabotage your life and become homeless for a while. That has the same effect as a serious drug addiction. You can also join a cult, for example. Suffering will make you more creative and rekindle your youthful spark. Or it will kill you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 18:40:29 2011 No.1929735 >>1929546 yes. utter, debunked bullshit. i wish op would have bothered to google brain lateralization before posting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 20:01:29 2011 No.1929982 spend a week walking in one of the cardinal directions. whenever you speak with someone, try to guide the conversation back to its own foundation. speak early but not often. then turn around and walk back.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 20:06:29 2011 No.1929991 >>1929540 Read some DFW

Anonymous Fri Jul 15 20:07:29 2011 No.1929995
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>OP asks for inspiration
>anon immediately screams DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS
lol 4chan, bunch of inanimate shit that can't independently generate thought even if it wanted to.

doing something unusual in an unfamiliar location is should suffice

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 20:10:29 2011 No.1930001 >>1929995 well, it has worked since as long as man has been sapient on earth, but you seem to be the expert so I'll defer to you and assume all that was wrong

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 08:48:29 2011 No.1931356 File: 850 KB, 1024x3000, 1275848792965.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Drugs, mang.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 09:27:29 2011 No.1931377 Take magic mushrooms

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 09:41:29 2011 No.1931386 Try reading or watching something particularly surreal.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 09:41:29 2011 No.1931387 >>1931386 Oh, almost forgot - also, surreal music.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 09:45:29 2011 No.1931389 >>1931386 this I recommend Enter The Void

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 09:48:29 2011 No.1931392 'this is growing-up'

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 10:57:29 2011 No.1931454 File: 116 KB, 800x800, 1310736365089.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >people recommending drugs

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 11:03:29 2011 No.1931462 DRUGS ARE BAD KIDS, DON'T TRY THEM. YOU'LL END UP DRILLING HOLES INTO THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD TO BE IN A PERPETUAL LUCID STATE, ALL OF YOU WILL. ALL IT TAKES IS ONE DRUG.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 14:58:29 2011 No.1931808 Travel.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 15:09:29 2011 No.1931822 >>1929540 Stop seriously considering other people's opinions.

Anonymous Sat Jul 16 15:13:29 2011 No.1931829

Quit masturbating - www.yourbrainonporn.com - look into the site fully.

If you havn't already, cannabis and psychedelics - although don't abuse them.

Life gets shitter as you get older. Being a child is full of wonder and novelty. It's just how it is.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 15:31:29 2011 No.1931861 >>1931829 > Quit masturbating - www.yourbrainonporn.com - look into the site fully. You're kidding right? This shit is hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 16 15:52:29 2011 No.1931920 File: 76 KB, 470x531, 1310547799040.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1931861 lol their "part from a scientific perspective" has absolutely no data at all

Anonymous Sat Jul 16 16:08:29 2011 No.1931954

>>1929546
It's not bullshit, it's a scientific neurology concept. The problem are idiots like OP and Mercedez/Benz and whoever did that drawing and that text. Hate them.

And OP, you should take drugs, there is absolutely no argument against them. At least alcohol and weed, which are very light. You can try LSD in a good opportunity to see what really helps in creativity.

And watch movies like The Fall, Barton Fink, Adventures of Baron Munchausen and so on.

Anonymous Sun Jul 17 01:48:29 2011 No.1933648
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>>1931829
>Life gets shitter as you get older. Being a child is full of wonder and novelty. It's just how it is.

There has to be some way to retain your inner child...... Isn't there?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 01:56:29 2011 No.1933670 >>1933648 Experience new things as often as possible. The problem with doing that is you have less time to apply your creativity and passions when not experiencing new things.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 02:08:29 2011 No.1933692 >>1933648 Become an animator. 2d or 3d, doesn't matter. I feel like a kid everyday, its awesome.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 20:19:29 2011 No.1935320 I feel like I lost a lot of creativity after I went to college, lost my virginity, and started drinking and paying bills. For someone who used to be overflowing with bountiful imagination, this is highly depressing.

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Anonymous Sun Jul 17 21:32:29 2011 No.1935589

Write whatever comes to your mind for 10-20 minutes a day. It helped me come up with a new comic/animation series. The one I'm working on now. It's really the best way I've found to extract original ideas from myself. I really, really recommend it.

You can use 750words.com, or just keep track of it all yourself on microsoft word or notepad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 21:38:29 2011 No.1935610 File: 15 KB, 450x257, sintro01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Get a new brain through reincarnation. Or the Technological singularity.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 22:10:29 2011 No.1935701 >>1929991 What does that stand for?

Anonymous Sun Jul 17 22:53:29 2011 No.1935802

>>1931829

I was about to recommend the same thing. yourbrainonporn.com I haven't checked out, but I have read Norman Doidge's /The Brain That Changes Itself/, which includes a chapter on the effects of porn.

The fact is that porn and masturbation hamper creativity and resolve. Hence (in part) the legions of talents here, for example, who can never seem to buckle down and write that book. This may not be something you have a problem with, but if you do, you should give it some thought.

In my experience, about a month after quitting pornography and masturbation, I found myself brimming with ideas for a project on which I'd been drudgingly working before. I still had to sit down and plug away at it, but the process was very different.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 22:58:29 2011 No.1935815 >>1935701 David Foster Wallace... I think?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 23:09:29 2011 No.1935840 right a sad novel thats semi autobiographical about a man who becomes slowly more and more depressed as he becomes just another drop in the ocean of mediocrity. then end the novel with a happy ending.

>>	anonymous Mon Jul 18 08:32:29 2011 No.1936855 File: 329 KB, 850x1100, pshift.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] read this and pray for the paradigm shift

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 18 08:36:29 2011 No.1936869 >>1935802 i can understand this completely. deleted all my porn a while ago but it's still too easy to just google 'pornhub'

Anonymous Mon Jul 18 10:57:29 2011 No.1937041

>>1935320

The same happened to my friend's sister. She was a dreamer, very creative. We would have all these deep and insightful conversations and she wanted to write a paranormal type book series but then she had a family and ten years later, she became a mindless drone with nothing interesting to say and forgets things easily. sad.

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