how to cultivate creativity
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
It is often in the cradle of friendship — a word not to be used carelessly — that our creative energies are strengthened and renewed.
Maria Popova • Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community
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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The sunshine of life springs from twin suns. We may call them love and art. We may call them connection and creativity. Both can take many forms. Both, if they are worth their salt and we ours, ask us to show up as our whole selves. Both are instruments of unselfing.
Maria Popova • Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community
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Sari Azout • a moodboard on creating through the fear
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
“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