Know your creative cycle
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
The Noetic Spiral works the same way with our creative process. It moves through four distinct but flowing phases:
First comes Gathering – the active consumption of ideas, experiences, and information. It's the reading, the listening, the observing. But unlike our usual content binge, it's intentional and purposeful. Think of it as carefully... See more
First comes Gathering – the active consumption of ideas, experiences, and information. It's the reading, the listening, the observing. But unlike our usual content binge, it's intentional and purposeful. Think of it as carefully... See more
The Noetic Spiral
"The seven categories of creative work If you arrange your creative work according to these seven categories, you can ease creative insights through the four stages of control. You can avoid getting blocked, and avoid getting distracted or burnt out. 1. Prioritize: To have the space for creative work, you need to have a clear picture of what you’re... See more
The Noetic Spiral works the same way with our creative process. It moves through four distinct but flowing phases:
First comes Gathering – the active consumption of ideas, experiences, and information. It's the reading, the listening, the observing. But unlike our usual content binge, it's intentional and purposeful. Think of it as carefully... See more
First comes Gathering – the active consumption of ideas, experiences, and information. It's the reading, the listening, the observing. But unlike our usual content binge, it's intentional and purposeful. Think of it as carefully... See more
Zoe Scaman • The Noetic Spiral
“After writing and recording an album, I allow myself a large and ever-increasingly long exhale. But leading up to the process, I tend to get consumed by a theme that carries me through to the writing - I know when it’s happening now because it feels like picking up breadcrumbs; one book leads to another, or I feel called to travel or learn
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