Whenever I’m feeling uncreative I watch this John Mayer video and reminds me that you become creative by creating. There’s no thinking yourself into creativity.
Have watched probably 100 times.
https://t.co/6np9af8r5g
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
Midway through his deep sleep, the riff for the famous Stones song appeared to him in a dream, which seems too unbelievable to be true, yet this tale isn’t a work of fiction. Luckily, the guitarist had a Phillips cassette player near his bedside and captured the magical piece of music rather than let it float into oblivion while half asleep.
Creative people also ensure they can catch the lightning when it strikes. Richards had his cassette ready.
surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even surprise is not enough if it is merely random. Peak creativity seems to require a rarer combination: novelty that has intention.
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