Creativity
Love to create~
Creativity
Find the best ingredients possible to ferment into great ideas, and aggressively prune everything you don’t want your brain to process. Give your brain the boredom and output time it needs to figure out what to do with that information. Don’t keep opening the jar and packing more into it. Finally, be patient with the process. The more you can... See more
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
ways to use your brain:
-Listen to a philosophy podcast while walking
-Rewatch a childhood movie and analyze it in an essay
-Learn a new word and use it in a sentence
-Write a letter to someone (or yourself)
-Memorize a poem
-Learn the capitals of every country
-Go to the Library
-Pick a side in a debate—then argue the opposite
-Rewrite a fairytale from a
... See more“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control... Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
friday update 🍓🐣
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential, durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it’s visible? That is a real question. One of my
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
The practice of choosing creativity persists. It’s a commitment to a process, not simply the next outcome on the list. We do this work for a reason, but if we triangulate the work we do and focus only on the immediate outcome, our practice will fall apart.
Seth Godin • The Practice
Too much beauty to mention it all. 🍊🧡
But here are my highlights of the week and you can watch the process tomorrow over in the club:
- the crocuses are out and are glorious
- having a full house with grandparents visiting
- a day trip in London (see... See more
instagram.comBy using some of these collected phenomena bubbling in your head, you will have a book that has your stamp on it and is unlike any other. When I’m working with clients, I tell them to temporarily put aside considerations of others and of worldly success, and I ask that they make a list. What kind of list? It’s an inventory of everything that
... See moreMark Levy • Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.