Highlights 🥑 Why Your Ideas Are So Bad

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This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I've seen. It perfectly demonstrates something known as the "Creativity Faucet." When you go to the studio, John Mayer was asked, what do you do to generate ideas? “Well, I don’t always do it,” he admitted, “because it requires a stupid bravery all the time.” He strums a couple chord... See more

Billy Oppenheimer x.com

Visualize your creativity as a backed-up pipe of water. The first mile is packed with wastewater. This wastewater must be emptied before the clear water arrives.

Because your pipe only has one faucet, there's no shortcut to achieving clarity other than first emptying the wastewater.

Let's apply this to creativity: At the beginning of a creative sess... See more

julian.com • Creativity faucet: Increase your creativity

Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle. Perfectionism is your brain trying to protect you from harm—from coming up with an idea that is embarrassing and stupid and could cause you to suffer pain.

James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

There’s no formula, or source from which you can easily and consistently tap for a wellspring of creativity, but there are certainly some general rules, such as the fairly basic claim that good inputs are a prerequisite for good outputs. The notion that an artist can live with indifference—absorbing junky content, having junky conversations, inhabi... See more

When a craftsperson has a seed of an idea but is unsure where to start, they do not procrastinate by doing more research. They start by making something terrible. They amuse themselves with how bad the initial work is, because they know that their starting work is not a reflection of the finished work’s quality. It’s just a clearing of the mental p