Creativity
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Creativity
13 Creative Commandments:
1. Talent is an important differentiator, but talent needs to put in the hours to excel.
2. Question everything. Question what is good, what is bad, why you like or don't like something. It's more important than ever in an algorithmic industry to play by your own rules.
3. Stand by the work that you make. Do not place
... See moreMore generally, it’s not beginnings and ends that count, but middles. Things and thoughts advance or grow out from the middle, and that’s where you have to get to work, that’s where everything unfolds.
– Gilles Deleuze, On Leibniz
Twyla Tharp talks about having a physical box for every project. That way, as you research and think about the project, you can add things to the box as you go: notes you write yourself, newspaper clippings that inspire you about the project, etc.
Marlee Grace • How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care
Play can easily be dismissed as childish, irresponsible and unbecoming of the seriousness required of us modern achievement-subjects. But the demand for playful living is really a demand to reject the conditions of the achievement society. Embracing play is a bold defiance against the relentless productivity mantra of the achievement society. But
... See moreAlec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
Philosophy is wondering whether that makes ketchup a smoothie.
Common sense is knowing that ketchup is not a smoothie.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working — Pablo Picasso
Everyone is an artist. Everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. Consciousness is always consciousness of something. There is no fixed world out there, the world is coming toward you and you are coming toward it. And between the two of you, you actually construct the world. It’s never as given as it
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Creativity takes courage.
Henry Matisse