SIX at 6: Lowering The Stakes, Bad Poetry, Coal Miners, What’s The Big Deal?, The Down-Up Theory, and Premeditated Resentments - Billy Oppenheimer
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SIX at 6: Lowering The Stakes, Bad Poetry, Coal Miners, What’s The Big Deal?, The Down-Up Theory, and Premeditated Resentments - Billy Oppenheimer
Here 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
Henrik Karlsson • Notes | Substack
By this definition, art is less an object and more a process of exploration.
Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
Successful artists, musicians and other creatives have a similar dilemma. Their fans want more of what they did to reach their success. They want them to play their old songs, paint the same style paintings, and make the same kind of great movies. But in order to keep improving, to maintain their reputation as someone creative, the artists need to... See more