If I hadn’t been writing this essay on creativity when I went to the museum I may
have just chuckled at my daughter’s insightful reply but not applied it to my work.
That is why you should keep these creativity concepts in the back of your head when
you are viewing art, so you are ready to file away any pertinent and applicable ideas
to use back in the office. If you start practicing being open and aware of new ideas,
you might feel flooded with hundreds of disparate ideas, all of which seem like good
things, but that you have trouble organizing and putting to good use in your maps.
At this stage you need to think about carrying a small notebook around with you
so you can jot these things down. An alternative to the notebook is to use your cell
phone camera to snap pictures of anything that strikes you, but only if you think the
visual will be enough to remind you how you could apply it to your work.