Individuals are wired differently with different IQs and different ways to tackle their problems.
The ability to be able to solve a problem using a method that works for you is what makes you special and different from all other humans.
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Creative blocks are aspects of students' life that must be experienced, it comes as a result of over stress of the brain.
It's a point where ideas literally leave you running on an empty head. At that point you go blank with nothing to put down as a result of your creativity.
You feel so empty sometimes that 2 letter words like “If, it, of, to” becomes a challenge you find difficult to even spell.
As a student I tackle my creative blocks in two ways. When I am on a project and I discover I am out of ideas, I go on with a meal that is not actually my favourite but it always does the magic of restoration.
As funny as this is but hope you won't laugh at me when I mention that I go for Cassava flakes ( Garri ) I know this will sound funny but what i just do is take a little quantity of it, put in a cup then apply plenty water making the flakes flow freely inside the water I add fried groundnut and then a little sugar.
What I actually enjoy is not really the flakes but the mixed taste of sour and sweet produced by both the cassava flakes and the sugar I added from the water.
With a spoon I take every sip of the water with just a little of the flakes on it as I look and go over my project again.
Trust me, before I could finish the cup of Garri I would have been restored with ideas. That's a way I use to recess my brain. This particular method deals with just minor projects in a case where I am faced with a cumbersome project that needs a great idea.
I just close that project and let it be then go on with my other activities I get back to that project in the early hours of the morning, sleep and wake up as early as 3 am and then my system would have been refreshed I use that opportunity to pour out the fresh ideas that will come from my brain before the brain will begin to think of other unsolved problems I would have achieved that particular problem.
When the brain begins to malfunction as a result of too much unsolved puzzle. Go on a recess it helps a lot.