how to cultivate creativity
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
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
―
Jack London
―
Jack London
A quote by Jack London
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
— Charles Mingus via Daily Creative podcast
a moodboard on creating through the fear
Sari Azout • a moodboard on creating through the fear
The Mathematics of Creativity | Why Genius Follows a Formula
youtube.comQuantity builds quality, law of large numbers
Zips law of creativity
Creativity is combinatorial by nature
Skill follows a exponential curve
Chaos and order, complexity theory, creativity emerges at the edge of chaos
“You need time. And that doesn’t mean necessarily even working full-time on it itself; it means time to throw some ideas together and let them sit, go off and do something else, come back and see what still feels right.”
–Christopher Nolan
–Christopher Nolan
Britton Perelman • Just a moment...
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.