how to cultivate creativity
Quantity 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
Maria Popova • Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community
Though artists generally aren’t aware of it, that end work is a by-product of a greater desire. We aren’t creating to produce or sell material products. The act of creation is an attempt to enter a mysterious realm. A longing to transcend. What we create allows us to share glimpses of an inner landscape, one that is beyond our understanding. Art is
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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
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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
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–Christopher Nolan
Britton Perelman • Just a moment...
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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