How can we become more creative?
what determines your ability to write well more than anything else is writing a lot. Once you reach the threshold of writing a decent sentence, the thing that leads to success is writing more.
James Clear • How Smart Do You Have to Be to Succeed?
creativity is a fundamental element of human nature, an ability we use every time we come up with a new idea or find a solution to a novel problem. It goes hand in hand with being human. Put simply, creativity is imagination in action, and this action can take care virtually anywhere.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Creative Aliveness: Turning Life Into a Creative Adventure
What most people forget, however, is that Newton worked on his ideas about gravity for nearly twenty years until, in 1687, he published his groundbreaking book, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. The falling apple was merely the beginning of a train of thought that continued for decades.
James Clear • Creativity Is a Process, Not an Event
Maybe creativity is a blend between destiny and devolopment?
Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity. To see past the ordinary and mundane and get to what might otherwise be invisible.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
To create is to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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