1. Spontaneity is the key to originality.
3. Change your hairstyle every two weeks, but not so drastically that people freak out.
4. Wear clothes from DI, or clothes that make you feel like people are looking at you (even if they aren't). Often times, thinking that others are watching you will spawn spontaneity or make you act differently.
6. Look at what hipsters do, and then don't do it. (Hipsters think they are original, but they are just following a trend. If you also become hipster, you will be following the hipster trend, thus unoriginal)
5. Break rules, but not the ones that will get you in lots of trouble.
7. Put your pencil on the paper and write for ten minutes without stopping. Don't write about something, just write. It may not make any sense but it'll help your creative juices flow.
8. Say whatever comes to your mind. Also helps creative juices. (Don't say the inappropriate things though, just the random ones)
9. Whenever writing a list, switch 5 and 6 because it might help you break from the OCD monotony.
10. Try to imagine what others might be expecting you to say, and then say the opposite.
11. Be different, do what your parents tell you to do.
12. Take really long showers and think about the most random stuff you can.
13. Ignore everything that people tell you is original because if you follow it, you will be unoriginal (including this list)
14. Before doing something, think, Would an average human do this, this way? If the answer is yes, do it a different way.
15. Before doing something, think, If I did this, would people judge me? And then you must carefully IGNORE THE ANSWER COMPLETELY GOSH DANG IT, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PEOPLE THINK WHEN YOU ARE BEING ORIGINAL.
16. Never ever write in all caps because that's tacky.
17. Make people laugh
18. Make people cry.
19. Ignore everyone on the entire planet.
20. Contradict yourself.
21. Surprise people.
22. Make every day things into really big deals.
23. Only have the number of items in your list be a prime number because people will be like "Seriously? They couldn't have ended on a five or at least an even number??"
23. Never repeat yourself.
24. Put the milk in the bowl before the cereal.
25. Bake bacon and cook cookies.
26. Remember the Alamo
27. Every idea is worth writing down.
28. Grow a moustache not a mustache. Mustaches are creepy and moustaches are classy.
29. Watch entire seasons of your favorite TV shows in one week or less so that you can fully immerse yourself in the world.
30. Do your homework on time so you have more time to be original.
31. Pretend you are going insane and gauge people's reactions. If they seem to like you more, you weren't a fun enough person before.
32. When on the brink of running out of ideas, google the most random thing on the internet to spur creative juices.
33. Make cat posters and give them to random people you don't know.
34. Go to the store and try to scare the cash register person with the things you are buying.
35. Never repeat yourself.
36. That's all. (And for those of you who though that I didn't follow rule 23, go back and look at 20, and then realize that I actually put two 23's so it would be 37 items which would be prime, thus contradicting myself by not contracting myself.
This was funny and cool and everything.
ReplyDeleteGreat great post.