
Pour Out Lesser Ideas to Get to Great Ones


The most interesting thing I learned last year is this mental model for generating world-class writing. https://t.co/bPMHPtLDuh
This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I’ve seen.
It perfectly illustrates something many of my favorite artists have described.
When you go to the studio, Mayer was asked, what do you do to generate ideas?
“Well, I don’t always do it,” he a... See more
Billy Oppenheimerx.comHere are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:
- Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read th