on creativity
The hidden work behind great art: How Jerry Seinfeld's relentless effort and comfortable struggle created effortless-looking comedy
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Yeah. I think kind of like the through line is just like the humanizing, like great artists and creators and like just the long, the many years and like the slight efforts that accumulate and like someone like Seinfeld, like the all art is disguising work. He was saying that like some other comedian said to him, like your whole act is a
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and we’re just stuck in a creatively stagnant era? Well, stagnation can lead to explosive change. The Renaissance in Northern Europe came after war, the Black Death, and religious turmoil. The Harlem Renaissance of the ‘20s and ‘30s sprang out of segregation and poverty. The counterculture movement of the ‘60s
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As theorist Matt Klein puts it, “There’s this weird thing that’s happening where amongst creative surplus, we have creative stagnation.”
The New York Times • The Algorithm Has Been Hiding Something From You | NYT Opinion
Creativity has two parts:- Creative discovery mode: shuffling things around, exploring. Playful.- Implementation mode: creating something robust and concrete.- Revisit the work the next day in an alert state and assess whether it is ready for linear implementation.
