Creativity

"Novelty emerges from an individual mind, when it is judged by a committee, orthodoxy will usually prevail."

To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just redo it, redo it, redo it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.

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."

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