creation | ideas | inspiration
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click i... See more
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
this! cheatcode
my cheesy oversimplification that i do think is true is that ultimately marketing is simply about publicly being in love with the problem-space that you’re operating in. your product, sure, but why did you make the product? because you cared about the problem, right? show us!!
"it's ironic that the world always asks for everything new and original and at the same time rejects anything that does not follow common patterns or rules"
" Being creative isn't about being the first (or only) person to think of an idea. More often, creativity is about connecting ideas." - JC
James Clear • For a More Creative Brain Follow These 5 Steps
curate — connect
When you're in fight or flight, your brain only works in a very limited capacity compared to when you are at ease, relaxed—which is why great ideas come to you in the shower, because you're relaxed. You have warm water pouring on top of your head, and so your brain kind of melts away and can start to put together different data points that are not ... See more
Shaan Puri • My First Million on Apple Podcasts
chill out will ya
Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.
How to Do Great Work
Our ideas appear primarily in one situation: when little else is occupying our thoughts…Good ideas require boredom. If you constantly ingest new information, the existing information can never be digested.