What’s Your Zone Trigger?
September 24th, 2006I was watching (finally) the cult favourite 80s teen movie Heathers and I noticed something about the protagonist, Veronica Sawyer. Whenever she wanted to write in her diary or was writing in her diary at home she wore a monocle. Now she doesn’t wear that monocle at High School, only at home.
This brought up an interesting number of theories as to explain why she would do that. Other than stating the obvious that she was just being a teenager, I was informed (quite cheekily, I must say) that wearing a monocle was her zone trigger.
Which just begs the question, what in the heck (its Ramadan, aren’t supposed to swear!) world is a zone trigger? And what is the zone?
From a literal viewpoint, I’d probably evaluate this zone to some sort of area and a trigger to be a sort of button/method/function to get into this “zone”.
Well that is close to what the zone trigger is all about from a non-creative person (:cough: me).
For people who are creative, and this is by no means limited to one art form or form of expression. The zone is when their creative juices are concentrated and just waiting to be extracted or bursting (pardon the crude imagery). Now a zone trigger is something , some specific action these creative people do in order to get started on the extraction of their creative output. For the love of God, this juice metaphor has got to go.
Now every person has a zone trigger. Some of us have a certain habit we unintentionally do before we start on a task. Examples of zone triggers, and believe me they get wilder by the next person, are wearing a monocle (the movie), twirling a pen 20 times (or insert the number of your choice) between your thumb and forefinger before writing, cracking your fingers (a filthy habit), biting one’s nails, chewing ones lips, listening to a certain song(s) before or during working…etc.
But that does not mean one only has one zone trigger, perhaps or better yet probably one has multitude of zone triggers which one might choose depending on the severity of the task or creative ideas.
Now that that is said and done, so what is your zone trigger?