Our brains take shortcuts by gravitating toward what's familiar. "There’s a certain point at which your real learning and your real transformation, as a person or as a group, happens after an unexpected mistake." Seek Out the Unfamiliar "There’s a certain point at which, in the life of a group, or the life of a person, there’s not much more that can be learned by more success," he says. "If everything you play is clean and fresh and slick, that means you’ve given up experimentation."īarrett cautions that continuous success time after time could be seen as a red flag. "You need to be experimenting and exploring and trying new things all the time," Barrett says. That means reframing your thinking so that deviating from routine isn't considered falling off the wagon so much as taking the wagon down a different path. If you’re not making a mistake, it’s a mistake. Let’s look at some ways to avoid stagnation by shaking up your personal and work routines. But, on the other end of the spectrum, couldn't too much routine inhibit positive habit changes and stifle creativity? Indeed, maintaining a routine keeps us from getting sucked into a vortex of YouTube videos and social media that could easily throw our productivity out of whack.
In our world of synchronized calendars and countless scheduling tools, breaking from routine can seem like a kind of sacrilege.
Operating off-book is often easier said than done, though. Barrett argues in his book Yes to the Mess that each of these skills is critical, not just in making great jazz, but in developing break-through ideas and being a strong leader. They were noticing and creating and discovering all simultaneously." They could not rely on old routines and habits. "Those musicians are exploring this for the first time. "Everything on this recording is a first take," organizational behavior researcher Frank Barrett says of Davis’s album in an interview with Harvard Business Review. The result is one of the highest grossing jazz albums in history. While most jazz players of his era were playing a fast-tempoed bebop, Davis wanted to take a new approach to jazz-getting both himself and his band to break out of the bebop routine. Take, for example, Miles Davis's 1959 album, Kind of Blue, which is considered by many to be one of the greatest jazz albums of all time. Breaking out of your daily routines can be a powerful way to unlock great new ideas, both personally and professionally.
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