Creativity
the art of creativity
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Creativity
The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art
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Jerry Seinfeld talking with Howard Stern on finding the pain you're comfortable with:
"Seinfeld: I'm never not working on material. Every second of my existence, I'm thinking, could I do something with that?
Howard Stern: That, to me, sounds torturous.
Seinfeld: Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with."
"Seinfeld: I'm never not working on material. Every second of my existence, I'm thinking, could I do something with that?
Howard Stern: That, to me, sounds torturous.
Seinfeld: Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with."
creative minds don’t distinguish between work and non work
Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:
- Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read
Substack • Notes | Substack
Named after the economist Charles Goodhart, the principle states, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Measurement is only useful when it guides you and adds context to a larger picture, not when it consumes you. Each number is simply one piece of feedback in the overall system.
James Clear • Atomic Habits
What is it about fooling around while having fun that enhances creativity? By rearranging actions or thoughts, play generates novel ways of dealing with the environment, most of which lead nowhere but some of which may turn out to be useful — often at a much later date. Play is also about breaking away from established patterns and combining... See more
Patrick Bateson • ScienceDirectScience DirectScienceDirect helpElsevierRELX Group
One thing that sets these intensely creative individuals apart, as far as I can tell, is that when sitting with their thoughts they are uncommonly willing to linger in confusion.
To be curious about that which confuses. Not too rapidly seeking the safety of knowing or the safety of a legible question, but waiting for a more powerful and subtle... See more
To be curious about that which confuses. Not too rapidly seeking the safety of knowing or the safety of a legible question, but waiting for a more powerful and subtle... See more
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For creative exploration, anecdotes are powerful, as they often represent outliers or anomalies in data which might be more indicative of new trends, attitudes, or areas of interest, than the averages derived from aggregated data.
-Rory Sutherland on the Rick Rubin podcast