A degree of relaxation is necessary to have good ideas because one doesn't have them so much as receive them—and one cannot receive anything with clenched fists.
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A degree of relaxation is necessary to have good ideas because one doesn't have them so much as receive them—and one cannot receive anything with clenched fists.
creativity appears to depend partly on processes taking place in your brain while you’re not focusing. (Limiting the time allotted to high-stakes work also helps reduce the feeling of being intimidated or oppressed by it, which causes some people to procrastinate.)
Oliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Your brain works best when you are not instructing it on what to do. A lot of creative work is really just sitting around
Daniel Vassallo • Daniel Vassallo on Applied Antifragility – Visión Periférica Podcast • Podcast Notes
You can't become playful and therefore creative if you're under your usual pressures, because to cope with them you've got to be in the closed mode...You must make a quiet space for yourself where you will be undisturbed.
JamesClear.com • "Creativity in Management"
When you're in fight or flight, your brain only works in a very limited capacity compared to when you are at ease, relaxed—which is why great ideas come to you in the shower, because you're relaxed. You have warm water pouring on top of your head, and so your brain kind of melts away and can start to put together different data points that are not ... See more
Shaan Puri • My First Million on Apple Podcasts
Funnily enough, the only way to produce our best work is to take the requisite time away from it. It is only through a still and relaxed mind where we can think clearly and make the most of our talents and abilities.