creation is chaotic
I made a decision a long time ago that if I want creativity in my life—and I do—then I will have to make space for fear, too. Plenty of space. I decided that I would need to build an expansive enough interior life that my fear and my creativity could peacefully coexist, since it appeared that they would always be together.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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The first Philz location used to be a bodega. Here’s a picture of the first coffee station and my dad (Phil) tucked in the corner of the bodega (you can see bottles of Rémy Martin on the right).
The first several years of business weren’t pretty, but my dad and I obsessed over quality and every customer interaction. Eventually, we sold the liquor ... See more
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I see that I have no control over constant change. . (from Look at the clouds; What do you see? (3)) #lookatthecloudswhatdoyousee
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Tom White on Substack
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It may sound counterintuitive, but research suggests that quantity yields quality when it comes to creativity. In the book Art & Fear, David Bayles shares the anecdote of a ceramics teacher who conducted an experiment with his students. He divided the class into two groups.
Group A was to be graded based on the quality of the work they produced,... See more
Group A was to be graded based on the quality of the work they produced,... See more
Found on Cosmos
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You belong to the world
by Carrie Fountain
as do your children, as does your husband.
It’s strange even now to understand that
you are a mother and a wife, that these gifts
were given to you and that you received them,
fond as you’ve always been of declining
invitations. You belong to the world. The hands
that put a peach tree into the earth exactly
where t
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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 her—the thought that others will read th
Substack • Notes | Substack
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