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Creativity, Tinker likes to say, is a function of the âlibrary in your head.â âWhen you sit down to create somethingâŚwhat you create is a culmination of everything youâve seen and done previous to that point.â What you pour out is a culmination of everything youâve filled up on previous to that point.
Increasingly, the work that stand out will be more raw and incomplete (because â by definition â new ideas havenât been optimized becauseâŚthey are new).
Eno explains:
"[On one end, you have] auto-tune that perfectly puts music into tuneâŚwhich is sort of flawless and faultless. [In contrast, the other side] is clumsy, awkward, crude and unfinished thi... See more
Eno explains:
"[On one end, you have] auto-tune that perfectly puts music into tuneâŚwhich is sort of flawless and faultless. [In contrast, the other side] is clumsy, awkward, crude and unfinished thi... See more
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 herâthe thought that others will read th
Substack ⢠Notes | Substack
I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectabilty) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. S... See more
Creativity: âI canât get new ideas staring at a blank page. Creativity, for me, requires motion. When you go on a walk, you can turn your world into an idea-generating sensorium, and ideas will spring up from the most unlikely sources. There is one thing thatâs absolutely certain about creativity: Itâs an active process, not a passive one. The best... See more
Ryan Hawk ⢠Episode #464: Polina Pompliano â Profiles Of The Worldâs Greatest Performers, Makers vs. Managers, & Building Trust Through Consistency
Thereâs also something to be said about collating and curating in the slow writing processâfacts, knowledge, smells, descriptions, stories, passport stamps, headlinesâuntil the collection becomes part of the transformation process. Through acute and critical attention, away from the drive of production, toward the singularity of studying a branch, ... See more
A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,
Nix đ ⢠carry yourself lightly
loving the process
Natalie Audelo and ⢠132 cards
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.
Lawrence Yeo ⢠The Omnipresence of Work - More To That
In our society, the spaces for adults to play are mostly constrained, for example, to sports, or going to the pub. And opportunities to live a life of imagination are reserved for exceptionally privileged people, like designers, actors, artists and film directors. This lack of imagination in our lives is an existential risk for society and humanity... See more