Everything we do is a remix, every song, every movie, every means, every Idea, every invention, and every discovery. Everything in the creation process is a copy, paste, transformed, and combine from our culture or another culture.

A remix is to combine new and edit existing materials to produce new material. Even if we add new stuff, we will remix music and videos already created. Remix it is crucial because some material is copyrighted. Remixing is pop art, and the methods are the same ones used at any critical level of creation. Copy, paste, transform, and combine. You may well say nowadays that everything is a remix. 

Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade almost every phase of our modern popular culture, modifying how we work, learn, and connect in ways that we are. The essential elements of creativity, Remix, clear that that can not be said; everything is remixed, everything that we do is a remix.

A popular question is where you get ideas. We don’t know; ideas are mysterious; our subconscious mind produces them most of the time. The basis of creativity is copying, transforming, and combine. Everything that we see, hear, taste, read, touch, watch, and experience is copied, transform, and combine into new creations of ideas and art. Our subconscious mind gives our concise mind these thoughts and the elements and ideas needed to create new ideas and concepts.

There is a 5-Step technique to produce new ideas based on James Webb Young, “A Technique for Producing Ideas.“ James Webb Young is one of the thinkers who describes the creative process’s workings elements. He lays out with clarity the five essential steps for a productive, creative process, enumerating a series of components supported by modern science and thinking on creativity and its dependence on the brain’s unconscious processes. 

Young talks about the value of creating a strong pool of “raw material” mental resources from which to develop new combinations of ideas. The second step is digesting the material; as Young writes, “What you are seeking now is the relationship, a synthesis where everything will come together in a neat combination, like a jig-saw puzzle,” 

Stage 3, the unconscious processing; in this stage, Young stresses the importance of making absolutely “no effort of a direct nature.” What you need to do at this process time, presumably, is to switch the problem over your subconscious mind and let it work while you sleep. At this stage in the production of an idea, drop the problem altogether, and turn to do what it is that stimulates your creative process and emotions. Read poetry, listen to music, go to the theater or movies, or a detective story.

Stage 4; is the a-ha moment, is when and then, and only then, everything will click in the fourth stage of the a-ha! Moment, out of nowhere, the IdeaIdea will arrive. It will get to your mind when you least anticipate it while shaving, bathing, or most often when you are half-awake in the morning. It may awake you in the middle of the nighttime.

Stage 5: It is when the Idea meets reality. Young referees, as the last stage. “The cold, gray dawn of the morning after,” when your newborn IdeaIdea has to face reality: It requires patients to work to make most ideas match the precise circumstances, or the practical exigencies, under which they must do work. And here is where possible many good ideas are lost. 

The idea man, is like the inventor, is often not patient enough or practical enough to go through with the adaptation part of the creative thinking process. It needs to be done if you want to create ideas to work in day to day world.

Additional Resources On This Topic:

https://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/05/04/a-technique-for-producing-ideas-young/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc&feature=emb_title