creation | ideas | inspiration

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!!

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

In the book "Art & Fear," a ceramics teacher divides his class into two groups to grade them differently—one on the QUANTITY of work produced and the other on the QUALITY of a single piece.

Surprisingly, the best and most creative ceramics were made by the QUANTITY group. This illustrates that repeated practice and learning from mistakes lead t

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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

You can't become playful and therefore creative if you're under your usual pressures, because to cope with them you've got to be in the closed mode...You must make a quiet space for yourself where you will be undisturbed.

" Being creative isn't about being the first (or only) person to think of an idea. More often, creativity is about connecting ideas." - JC

To come up with new ideas, you have to have space to be messy, to procrastinate, and to let your mind wander and free-associate. But there needs to be a balance. You eventually need to channel it into something concrete, or you won’t produce anything.