Creativity: Theory and Practice
Creativity is not a process. creativity is not scripted.
One of the most salient traits of creative visionaries like Walt Disney and Steve jobs is the absence of process.
Process is an organized way of doing things. But they didn’t have a process. They just did the work. No strict adherence to budget or timelines. Just figure things out on the fly.
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Marty Bell • WePresent | Marty Bell’s 10 tips for a more fulfilling (and fun) life
This gives us a roadmap to doing more creative work. What we need to do is, in the exploration phase, raise the perceived value of doing the work, raise the perceived costs of not doing the work, and lower the perceived value of doing other things.
Dan Shipper • Why You're Not Doing Creative Work
Make it attractive to do more creative work
Dasha Nekrasova • Jon Rafman and Dasha Nekrasova on the Horror We Call Life
Another key aspect of idea generation is to embrace variance. Research shows that, to find good novel ideas, we likely have to come up with many bad novel ideas because most new ideas are pretty bad. Fortunately, we are good at filtering out low-quality ideas, so if we can generate novel ideas quickly and at low cost, we are more likely to generate
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As humans are good at filtering out low-quality ideas, generating lots of ideas quickly is a great use for AI
Try writing about why the work is important, or spend some time reflecting on times in the past where you’ve felt most connected to it.