Creativity
Ideas sometimes seem to need days or weeks or months to get to a point where they feel fully formed. If you try to force a solution to a problem into a preset window of time, you will almost certainly reach a suboptimal solution.
I’ll often have ideas sitting in my focus folder for weeks or months and keep tossing thoughts into them, and then one... See more
I’ll often have ideas sitting in my focus folder for weeks or months and keep tossing thoughts into them, and then one... See more
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
INFJ Creativity: Why You Can't Start Small
youtu.beHow do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
- Ray Bradbury
I am clearly much too self conscious. To be fair I take writing to be acting on ideas rather than ruminating on them.
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
... See morePhil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
In nature, some seeds lie dormant in anticipation of the season most conducive to their growth. This is true of art as well. There are ideas whose time has not yet come. Or perhaps their time has come, but you are not yet ready to engage with them. Other times, developing a different seed may shed light on a dormant one.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
A Writing Practice to Help You Meet Yourself
youtu.beThis experience is common in the childhoods of people who go on to do great work, as I have written elsewhere. Nearly everyone who does great work has some episode of early solitary work. As the philosopher Bertrand Russell remarked, the development of gifted and creative individuals, such as Newton or Whitehead, seems to require a period in which... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
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