April’s theme was Procrastinate. In our chapter, we really took it seriously and procrastinated our event to the first week of May! We can definitely say it was worth the wait! Mario Rosa, a creative mind, was our speaker and shared a lot with us about procrastination and how it relates to the creative process.
When searching on the internet about the theme, he found nothing positive was mentioned about procrastination. It was all about psychological issues, anxiety, stress and so on. However, for Mario and his positive outlook, his vision of procrastination is all about creativity! One can look at the creative process as a combination of four steps: preparation, incubation, illumination (eureka time) and verification. He shared with us how procrastination can be part of the creative process, particularly in the incubation phase. It’s exactly in this step that the act of procrastinating enters. It helps increase the connections between several half-incredible ideas we have in our brain, which are just waiting for us to connect with someone else and join the parts. Incredible ideas usually come to our mind when having a shower, sleeping or in movement (in the bus or walking). So why is procrastination so relevant for this process? When we relax, we stop pressuring with the “now” moment.
“The world does not belong to him who has the ideas, but to the one who implements them”, said Mario. We couldn’t agree more! He shared how most often, we need to collide our big ideas with someone else’s big idea to get that really huge and amazing idea that will be the winner to be implemented! Sometimes the procrastination process starts with a coffee and is the perfect occasion to accelerate the creative process; it’s the social serendipity!
In short, we learned from Mario that although everyone usually looks at procrastination as a delaying part of the process, it actually can be the place and time to grow new ideas. It can be the time needed for our mind to relax from the creative pressure and really get into flow.
At the end of his talk, Mario shared some tips to be a successful creative individual:
- Write your ideas
- Increase your ideas database
- Sleep with the ideas
- All the ideas are a half idea
- Share your ideas
- Take a chance
We thank Mario a lot for his insights and really true sharings! It was so light, funny and truly inspiring to listen to him! We believe everyone left this month’s event really inspired to do things, to have ideas and to connect with everyone else so that winner ideas could grow! It was fascinating and exciting to listen to Mario! Thank you so much for your energy, positivism and creativity!
Photos by Irina Konova and Sónia Ramalho
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