Posted by heatherb on November 30, 2000 at 10:18:07:
In Reply to: Divergent thinking posted by Susan on November 27, 2000 at 15:21:37:
: This is just a question for any other fours out there. I'm just wondering how others deal with thinking a lot of thoughts at once. My mind has always been very conceptual and I switch tracks easily. I am sure it is the infinite possibilties thing that fours like to continually mull over. We have these big picture ideas but hate the process to get them accomplished.
: I am just wondering if others get as frustrated as I do. Because it is such a great ability to come up with so many neat ideas but it is so impossible to accomplish them all. Or to be able to focus long enough on one of them to get it accomplished, before jumping into something else. I hate getting side-tracked but it happens all the time.
: Sometimes I just want to grab my mind and tell it to sit down for a minute....while I pick out an idea to accomplish.(Insert Nike commercial...."Just do it!") -I wish it was that simple. There are tons of art projects I need to do.
: I am not like this at work...I always get things done at work and I am very efficient. I have trouble when it is something that I want to accomplish for myself. Isn't that sucky, that I will do stuff that I don't always want to do for others and I have trouble doing things I would like to do for myself? Ugh!
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It sounds just like me...!
So many projects and ideas in my head... but then I never actually get any of them done. Something else happens and gets me side-tracked, or I think of something else...
Now that I think about it, it's a combination of divergent thinking and indecisiveness (is that how you spell it??).
Decorating, for example. I have SO MANY ideas for my apartment, ways to decorate my baby's room, what picutes to put on the wall, the colors I'd like to paint the walls... And guess what? I simply haven't gotten around to doing half of it yet!! Something else always comes up, OR, I've changed my mind about how I want it all to look.
I can never make up my mind, and that's the main problem!! One day I'm sure that I want to paint the walls green, but the next day I am sure that ocre would be better...!! So, I end up imagining what it will look like, but without committing to anything.
It's actually pretty ridiculous!
Yet, like you, when it comes to work, or anything someone else has asked me to do, I have no problems... I simply do it.
When it's for me... I have a hard time getting started. It's like you said: We have these big picture ideas but hate the process to get them accomplished.