Creativity with Cleese

John Cleese, in my opinion is mainly summed up by saying that creative people need to get into an open mind set before they do anything creative.  Cleese believes that you should take around a half hour one day a week and clear out your mind and relax.  During this time, you should write everything creative down that comes to your thoughts.  In my opinion, Cleese has different views then some people.  Here are my tips to being creative while also incorporating music into the whole situation.  

• When practicing your instrument, you should go at least once a day every day of the week for around an hour and a half.  This allows improvement over time without giving yourself too much of a break and forgetting everything you learned in the past.  
• Another tip when practicing is don't give yourself negative or positive comments.  Negative comments can be depressing and just beat yourself down.  Positive comments can make you have a big head and end up screwing up what you were probably doing fine already.  If you do point out things that are wrong, be more detailed about it.  Instead of saying "That was terrible", say "I maybe need to work on my breathing technique at measure 54".  

So basically, if you stick to those two things when practicing or attempting to be creative, you should succeed pretty well.  

~Nick