how to cultivate creativity
I am convinced that when we’re drawn to someone else’s creative output, it’s not so much the work that attracts us as it is the energy that drives it — the confidence, emotionality, or sheer authenticity that underlies its production.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
— Charles Mingus via Daily Creative podcast
The right way to deal with new ideas is to treat them as a challenge to your imagination — not just to have lower standards, but to
switch polarity
entirely, from listing the reasons an idea won't work to trying to think of ways it could. That's what I do when I meet people with new ideas.
switch polarity
entirely, from listing the reasons an idea won't work to trying to think of ways it could. That's what I do when I meet people with new ideas.
Paul Graham • Early Work
Austin Kleon, a prolific creator and writer, says that “creative work runs on uncertainty; it runs on not knowing what you’re doing.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight
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“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
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Jack London
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Jack London
A quote by Jack London
It is often in the cradle of friendship — a word not to be used carelessly — that our creative energies are strengthened and renewed.