How to be Insightful
" I think what’s funny is that I used to marvel for a long time why my best ideas — and by ideas, I don’t mean the ideas about what to write or all of that, but just insights on the truths of my experience, of the human experience, whatever. Those ideas, the best of them came to me at the gym or on my bike or in the shower. I used to have these ela... See more
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
The creative person knows that nearly anything they encounter in the course of daily life can be fodder for creative solutions.
Epiphanies are hidden in the most ordinary of moments: the casting of a shadow, the smell of a match igniting, an unusual phrase overheard or misheard. A dedication to the practice of showing up on a regular basis is the main requirement.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
