creativity
How to Manage Multiple Interests & Actually CREATE Something
youtube.comUrsula Le Guin: "They talked, and new worlds were born of their talking. It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on."
the creative process typically involves three steps:
- Collecting: Gathering interesting ideas
- Connecting: Drawing connections and organizing materials
- Creating: Producing something new
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
A good conversation is an act of joint exploration. Somebody floats a half-formed idea. Somebody else seizes on the nub of the idea, plays with it, offers her own perspective based on her own memories, and floats it back so the other person can respond. A good conversation sparks you to have thoughts you never had before. A good conversation starts
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“But museums also choose what to display, what to let rest in the dark, and what to reveal again under new light.
They’re not mausoleums — they are spaces of loss and rebirth. Alive, even in silence.
We are like that too.
Full of rooms. Piled-up memories. Crookedly hung frames.
Ideas that need to come out of storage.”
They’re not mausoleums — they are spaces of loss and rebirth. Alive, even in silence.
We are like that too.
Full of rooms. Piled-up memories. Crookedly hung frames.
Ideas that need to come out of storage.”
Laurent François • Saving the Invisible
Building a knowledge library for creative work
The Importance of an Idea Library
“The world’s biggest lie: I’ll remember that idea later”
Our brains excel at creating with ideas, not storing them
Having the right idea at the right time acts as a powerful lever for creative work
An idea library serves as insurance for your mind
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To test an idea, you must build it. You can’t rely on the abstract – you have to bring it into the world to play with it feel it and only then can you judge whether it’s worth pursuing or not