An In Depth Insight Into The Active Imagination of a Cinephillic Mind

Sources of imagination & intuition

As a creative person/former college student I find it hard to fully get back into embracing my creativity instinctually so this book I'm reading called the Filmmakers Intuition gives these excises as a way to tap into your creativity. I recommend these to any creative person looking to limber up their imagination.

1. Let your mind make free associations
2.Acknowledge pain
3. Turn off your auto pilot
4. Don't be afraid to ask questions
5. Give your other self permission
6. Observe. Empathize. Don't pass judgment
7. Tell stories
8. Take time to think and daydream
9.Listen radically
10. Give yourself freedom to do "it" wrong
11. Steal from everyone
12. Don't run away from resistances
13. Improvise in your mind
14. Think out loud. Read out loud.
15. never stop stop learning
16. spend time with art, nature, children
17. Surround yourself with people who have feelings
18. Acknowledge mortality
19. Take responsibility for your obsessions
20. Test your ideas
21. Don't stop until you come up something
22. Follow impulses
23. Tell the truth, life is to short to lie.