The Mess of a Creative Space
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The Mess of a Creative Space
Sometimes the process of thinking looks like needless chaos from the outside
But thats what creatives should be doing.
Banging on random objects just to see what it might shake out.
Creatives need to make a mess in order to arrive at clarity.
If you’re going to do high-level creative work, you have to accept the messiness of your initial creations, knowing that excellence is born from the sisters of patience and iteration.
The second you start condemning young and fragile ideas, you’re toast.
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Messy perfectionists do organize, but in a specific manner that only they understand. For example, their “system” for a project might include a series of saved Word documents that makes total sense to them but is impenetrable to anyone else:
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
Brinkman’s personality was a case study in one of the most well-known findings in the history of creativity research: Creative people have messy minds. Creative people also tend to have messy processes.
Scott Barry Kaufman • Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
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