Are You Still Distracted?
Distraction Distraction is one of the best tools available to the artist when used skillfully. In some cases, it’s the only way to get where we are going.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
While talking to a friend earlier this week, I realized that many of my best projects started out as what seemed like a distraction from more pressing work – ignoring my email inbox to read an interesting thread on Twitter or abandonning a work presentation for an hour to grab a coffee with a colleague.
These so-called distractions would plant the... See more
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Superhuman
The overarching point is that what we think of as ‘distractions’ aren’t the ultimate cause of our being distracted. They’re just the places we go to seek relief from the discomfort of confronting limitation.