Pour Out Lesser Ideas to Get to Great Ones
If each piece is approached as our life’s defining work, we revise and overwrite endlessly, aiming for the unrealistic ideal of perfection.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Open your notebook to show all the crossed-out ideas, half-baked drafts, and scribbled margins.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
What Ed’s saying is when you sit down for any creative session, the bad ideas come first. Instead of resisting them, write them down. As your brain sees more and more ideas, it begins to pattern match the interesting parts. Then, after a little while, the good ideas start to flow.