7 Blocks to Creative Thinking—And How to Burn Them to The Ground

Let’s get real: You’re not out of ideas. You’re surrounded by them—and suffocating under seven layers of self-imposed mental BS.

Creativity is not reserved for artists or weirdos or free spirits. If you’re building anything that matters—your brand, your business, your career, your next damn chapter—you need creativity like oxygen. But you’ve been trained to think small. Safe. Predictable.

Time to unlearn it all. Let’s blow up the 7 biggest creativity blocks keeping you stuck—and rebuild your mental operating system for firepower, not fluff.

BLOCK 1: Assumptions. The Silent Killers.

Assumptions are shortcuts your brain takes when it’s too lazy (or scared) to get the facts. They feel efficient. But they kill clarity, originality, and action.

“That won’t work.”
“They won’t say yes.”
“This has already been done.”

Yeah? Prove it.

Fire Move:
Whenever you hear yourself making a mental shortcut, pause and ask: “What do I actually know?” Then go get the rest.

BLOCK 2: The One-Perspective Prison

Creativity thrives in contrast. But most people stay locked in their own lens.

It’s not enough to ask, “What would I do?” Ask: “What would Beyoncé do? What would a 7-year-old do? What would someone who’s never used this product think?”

The more angles you see, the more power you hold.

Fire Move: Use the “5 Perspective Reframe”: your POV, your worst critic’s, your idol’s, a beginner’s, and the opposite industry’s.

BLOCK 3: The Emotional Yo-Yo

One day you feel like a genius. The next, like a fraud.

Creativity doesn’t need your feelings. It needs your focus.

Ride the waves, but don’t let them steer the damn boat.

Fire Move: Create a “Creative Lab Mode” ritual that you do no matter how you feel—same playlist, same seat, same timer. Let habit carry you when confidence won’t.

BLOCK 4: Lazy Thinking (a.k.a. “We’ve Always Done It This Way”)

This is the graveyard where ideas go to die. If your brain keeps auto-filling the past, you’ll never build a future worth showing up for.

Fire Move: Ruthlessly question tradition. Build a weekly “WTF Rulebook Audit”:

• What am I doing just because it’s habit?
• What part of this is actually working?
• What would I do if I were starting from scratch?

BLOCK 5: Acting Your Age (That’s the Problem)

Kids are creative because they haven’t been brainwashed into believing there’s one right way. You weren’t born cautious. You were taught to stay in the lines. Time to unlearn.

Fire Move: Inject play. Chase the tangent. Doodle on the margin. Make messes on purpose. That’s where the signal lives.

BLOCK 6: Seeing Only the Micro or the Macro

Zoomed in too far? You miss the pattern. Zoomed out too far? You miss the magic.

Fire Move: Switch lenses. Map your next idea at both the 30,000-foot level and the fine-tooth detail. Force your brain to toggle between them. That tension? That’s where strategy meets spark.

BLOCK 7: Outsourcing Your Opinion

Let’s end with the one that bites the hardest. You’ve been conditioned to please. To wait for permission. To water yourself down just enough to be digestible.

Stop it. You don’t need approval to be original. You need guts.

Fire Move: Say the thing. Make the thing. Stand by the thing. Whether they like it or not.

Your Brain Is Not Broken. It’s Ready for Reboot.

Here’s the truth: You’re already creative as hell. You’ve just got some gunk in the gears.

These 7 blocks? They’re not personality traits. They’re habits. And habits can be broken.

So break them.

Think like a rebel.
Work like a pro.
Create like the world’s watching—because it is.