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Inclining the Mind Toward “Sudden Illumination”: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
“But the Greeks and the Romans both believed in the idea of an external daemon of creativity—a sort of house elf, if you will, who lived within the walls of your home and who sometimes aided you in your labors. The Romans had a specific term for that helpful house elf. They called it your genius—your guardian deity, the conduit of your inspiration.... See more
Start somewhere bad to get somewhere good. A few weeks ago, I interviewed psychologist Adam Alter about his book Anatomy of a Breakthrough . In it, he writes about the “creative cliff illusion,” the notion that good creative ideas will either come quickly or not at all. Unfortunately, our intuition has that one approximately backward. In studies of... See more
David Epstein • Pour Out Lesser Ideas to Get to Great Ones
... See moreCreativity is about connection—you must be connected to others in order to be inspired and share your own work—but it is also about disconnection. You must retreat from the world long enough to think, practice your art, and bring forth something worth sharing with others. You must play a little hide-and-seek in order to produce something worth
The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorthemergencemagazine.org
"To do the work, we need to rest, to read, to reconnect. It is the invisible labor that makes creative life possible."
Keep the vessel of sharing open
I share this sentiment (from Cristobal Valenzuela, founder of RunwayML), on AI and creativity:
... See moreThe most significant gap in AI research and art does not lie within the models themselves but rather in the approach to art. I have noticed a tendency to oversimplify the creative act. In a research setting, the goal is to control and measure variables,
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