How can we become more creative?
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
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 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?
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?
To create is to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Definition of creativity
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
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