Steve Jobs on Creativity
The final bottleneck to great work is not knowledge or information. It’s not even intelligence. It’s that elusive, intangible, sublime quality—call it taste, imagination, creativity, courage, judgment, intuition, agency.
We’ve all heard the Thomas Edison quote where he said genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Back then, execution was expens
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Time’s gift is experience. Experience sharpens the craft. It acts as a prediction machine, and a pattern recognizer. It cuts through the extraneous. It moves decisively. It supercharges intuition. It’s a long-range antennae for spotting opportunity and potential. It broadens the intellectual and emotional palette from which to draw from. It provide... See more
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things … A lot of people in our industry haven’t
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.” (Steve Jobs)