Creativity Through Constraint

Yes, I have returned after a 3(4?) month hiatus...and honest to god, this return is motivated mainly by the selfish need to feel like I'm actually accomplishing something. I feel like I can count the number of activities I'll be performing in the following year with my fingers:


1. Studying
2. Gaming
3. Exercising
4. ...Miscellaneous (Groceries, cooking, sleeping)


Hence, I figured maybe it would be a good time to restart the blog. In retrospect, seeing how I first wrote about dental things, and then motivational things, and both of them failed, I figure maybe I'll just go about this blog without any plans or whatnot, just see what kind of direction randomness will take me. In the meantime though, I still do feel like talking about various sayings and what they mean...


So today, I guess I'll be talking about the notion of Creativity through Constraint. This was something first heard from another Day 9 Daily, something that has stuck itself quite well in my head...so well in fact, I can't seem to think of another way to inspire creativity. 


So anyway, the concept is that in order to inspire creativity one must impose some kinds of constraints upon oneself. The first example I think of is immediately the Day9 Daily Funday Monday, where you have to play a certain kind of way in order to get your replay featured - e.g warp prisms, nydus worms, contaminates (most recent one). And interestingly enough, although sometimes garbage does happen some new and innovative things do come up, things that people didn't really consider, unexpectedly powerful things. 


Which made me think, what happens if you apply this to your everyday activities? What if one day I suddenly sat down and said 'no computer every alternating day', would I be forced to think of new things to do to fill up my time? I certainly think so.


Something interesting to incorporate if anybody's willing.