For nearly five years I walked the same two blocks to my train stop twice a day--morning and evening, passing the same houses, the same piles of trash, the same parked cars. Those two blocks became so dull. Every day the same thing. Nothing new to see. Sometimes, whole days could go by like that--everything the same. Nothing new to see.
Of course this is not true, but it's very easily the mindset we can slip into, eased into the routines of the day, all too familiar with our surroundings. It's that mundaneness that can stifle creativity. After all, what is creative thinking but exploration?
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