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Smart People Should Create Things
- Capture the ideas and insights that spark your interest. A sticky note, a voice memo, or an app like Notion—whatever works.
- Organize them so you can find them later. Categories, tags, or even a simple “Projects” list will do.
- Distill your notes into their essential meaning. Ask: What’s the big takeaway here?
- Express your ideas by using them in you
Jenn • How to Build a Personal Knowledge System That Fuels Your Creativity
Contribute to the world around you. Create and share the brilliance that you have inside of you. Life is not meant to spent solely consuming the things that others have made.
James Clear • 6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create Beauty
Creative thinking happens in most people, but what differentiates most productive artists from the rest of the population is that they are compelled to do something with their ideas, and they are also usually able to work through fears about not being ready or not having the right set of tools.
Lisa Congdon • Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
Sources: this series borrows a lot of ideas and phrases from Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work (affiliate link), Daniel Pink’s To Sell is Human (affiliate link), and Brendon Burchard’s The Millionaire Messenger (affiliate link). In other words, this article curates and summarizes their work!
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
He defines creative activities is anything helping create something new and lasting.