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How To Overcome Creative Blocks With This Powerful Ritual

Sílvia Bastos
10 min readJan 18, 2018

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What is the difference between your most successful pieces of work, and the ones that no one even bothers to read until the end?

When I feel inspired, the content I produce is genuine and unique: I can feel every word as I write it, as if I was living that story right there and then. I laugh and cry and nothing can distract me from sharing those thoughts that come straight from my heart. My most successful articles — such as this one — are a perfect example of that state of inspiration.

However, there are times when this doesn’t happen. Very often I feel that I have to force each sentence out of my keyboard, and after hours of intense work I end up with some empty article that seems to have been written by an unconscious robot.

Luckily, I have recently discovered a solution that has has transformed my arbitrary bursts of creativity into a reliable source of precious insight.

The Part of Your Mind You Have Been Neglecting

Surrealist artist Salvador Dali used to purposely fall asleep with a heavy and loud object in his hand.

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Sílvia Bastos
Sílvia Bastos

Written by Sílvia Bastos

Habit Coach. Self-Experimenter. Find your ideal Keystone Habit here: https://journalsmarter.com/keystone-habit/

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