Saved by Jordan Bester and
For a More Creative Brain Follow These 5 Steps
My writing process, in a nutshell:
- Stumble upon a sentence in the wild or get invited to speak— the spark.
- Create a Sublime collection around that idea (here is my private collection).
- Collect things obliquely related to that idea.
- Visualize the chaos in Sublime Canvas to tidy the mental clutter (it takes one click to convert a collection into a Canvas
The most differentiating business skill of the 21st century
- Collecting: Gathering interesting ideas
- Connecting: Drawing connections and organizing materials
- Creating: Producing something new
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
This form of originality is called recombination because it requires finding novel combinations of two or more existing—and therefore unoriginal—concepts.
Adam Alter • Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
