Incubation and Creative Blocks 4
Creativity involves not only years of conscious preparation and training but unconscious preparation as well. This incubation period is essential to allow the subconscious assimilation and incorporation of one’s influences and sources, to reorganize and synthesize them into something of one’s own.
—Oliver Sacks
Anyone involved in creative endeavors likely is familiar with creative blocks—times when creative ideas fail persistently to materialize for prolonged periods. When the creative well runs dry, we often become anxious and seek reassurances, we remind ourselves of the inevitability of blocks, their transitory nature, perhaps even of times when creativity returned with renewed vigor after such episodes. ...
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