Creativity
the art of creativity
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Creativity
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“While grabbing dinner with a friend can be engaging, it’s a far cry from elaborate forest ceremonies.”
How did you play as a child? How do you play now?... See more
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All creativity requires letting go. We let go by having some fun. We have some fun by staying curious. We stay curious by being 100% present for what's unfolding. The antidote to product-anxiety is process-delight. Become more focused on process & you just might sneak up on awe.
nametwitter.comHere 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
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This is an insight that has been repeated by artists, too. Pablo Picasso: “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” James Baldwin: “Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.” Bob Dylan: “To be creative you’ve got to be... See more
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Inclining the Mind Toward “Sudden Illumination”: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works
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