| | iDoodle (or, why your inability to doodle
may cause you to copy the photographic ideas of others)
I  spend a lot of my time doodling. I think doodling on a sheet of paper is a really great creativity unlocker. People who can't doodle are afraid to waste the paper, and are afraid people will judge what they just doodled. This probably comes from elementary school when the teacher or another kid laughed at your drawing. Then you looked to see what the smart kid was drawing and COPIED that. This then manifests itself into always wanting to copy what others do so you won't get laughed at.
If you are unable to doodle, you're probably scared of failure. But a doodle is just a doodle. If you do a bad doodle, it's just a bad doodle. Don't read more into it than that. Like don't make it a paradigm for your entire life.
Which enters your photography business most likely. You see what the popular people do (e.g. "aged-film look actions, trash the dress) and then you copy them. This is why workshops and seminars exist!
It gets worse. You price the way you do because all the cool people do it a certain way. You put two Jimmy Choo's back to back like bookends on a bookshelf because that's what the cool photographer did. So you aren't doodling. You're looking at someone else's doodle, and COPYING it.
Try to doodle - just free, silly creative doodles. John Kennedy doodled a lot during the Cuban Missle Crisis (I saw it on display at the JFK Library in Boston) and that's what kind of gave me the idea.
As an inventor, I can't look at somebody else's doodle, or else the idea is not mine. So I doodle. I doodle all day long. I went to London just to ride a pony (yankee doodle?). I am an ex-yankee doodler!
Here is an example of how I doodle, and how it winds up in camera stores shortly after.
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