Creativity

Edwin said that there's no such thing as group originality or group creativity. He goes, "I do believe wholeheartedly in the individual capacity for greatness." And he says, "Originality are attributes of a single mind, not a group."

The Writing Life - Annie Dillard

> One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to

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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