Creativity
"Creativity is the focused combination of unlikely things. Your mind locks onto a certain element and then searches widely for something unexpected that fits with it. What can scuba diving teach you about agriculture? What can trees teach you about public speaking? There is always some connective tissue between disciplines. If you wish to be more c... See more
3-2-1: The secret to creativity, how our challenges shape us, and the value of bad workouts
Take two or three of those curiosities—the ideas that develop from the things you know and learn—and combine them to form a new concept. Don’t force it, but find existing overlaps and nooks and crannies that help them naturally fit together.
Joey Cofone • The Laws of Creativity
Ed Sheeran and Neil Gaiman are in the top 0.000001% of their fields. They're among, say, 25 people in the world who repeatedly generate blockbusters.
If two world-class creators share the exact same creative process, I get curious. Also, while writing this, I found a video of John Mayer doing the same thing.
I call their approach the Creativity Fauce
... See moreJulian Shapiro • Highlights 🥑 Why Your Ideas Are So Bad
The truth (that I often don’t like) is that the majority of my ideas for a story, essay, tweet, and really anything else are bad.
Ed Sheeran says, “Your mind is like a dirty tap.” What he means is the first flow of your ideas comes out dirty. Then, after a while, the ideas become cleaner. Finally, after longer, they become like the water gurgling do... See more
Ed Sheeran says, “Your mind is like a dirty tap.” What he means is the first flow of your ideas comes out dirty. Then, after a while, the ideas become cleaner. Finally, after longer, they become like the water gurgling do... See more
Nathan Baugh • 7 Writing Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
The Creativity Faucet encourages us to be relentlessly generative. But it doesn’t tell us what actually makes a great idea.
That’s where a second technique comes in: Relentless Juxtaposition. This is my term for repeatedly combining unrelated elements from different approaches to see if they fit together into something spectacular.
That’s where a second technique comes in: Relentless Juxtaposition. This is my term for repeatedly combining unrelated elements from different approaches to see if they fit together into something spectacular.
julian.com • Creativity faucet: Increase your creativity
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