Thoughts on creativity
Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.”
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Making things shouldn't be comfortable, that leads to stasis and complacency. Making is a method of learning and discovery, and learning requires tension and stretching. It requires pushing yourself and your boundaries. It requires dissent and disharmony. The resistance is a necessity.
And yet, all tension, all the time, means something will break down eventually. Maybe your work. Maybe your friends and your relationships. Maybe you. Duane Toops. Substack
- The creative process is the ability to relate old and new ideas. This means creative thinking is the task of recognizing relationships between concepts.
James Clear • For a More Creative Brain Follow These 5 Steps
Why Creative Women Don’t Finish (or Even Start) the Art Courses They Buy Online
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