How to be Insightful
Paying attention and listening. Looking for connections and relationships in the outside world. Searching for beauty. Seeking stories. Noticing what you find interesting, what makes you lean forward. And knowing all of this is available to use next time you sit down to work, where the raw data gets put into form.
There is no telling where that
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Being a first-class noticer, and cultivating the ability to attend to what others overlook, is crucial to any creative process.
Rob Walker • The Art of Noticing for Writers: From The Art of Noticing (A Vintage Short)
Being a creative means embracing the urge to put more of yourself—your identity, personality, and unique way of seeing—into the world, whether it be the way you make your breakfast in the morning or your trick for getting through your morning commute, or the themes that keep coming up among the thousands of photos in your camera roll. When we... See more