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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Theres something so amazing about watching someone who is a master in their field, just do what they do. You can see the genius and true skill of what make them so great. Watching Paul with a guitar in his hand or at the piano is like watching Bob Ross paint a landscape.

Michelangelo CC • Paul McCartney Explains Blackbird

COWEN: Next question. Speaking honestly, what makes you a great YouTuber?
AUSTIN: Speaking honestly, all right.
COWEN: We know you work hard. We know you’re smart, yes, yes, but what’s the secret sauce?
AUSTIN: Well, I don’t think I should know that. I think, honestly, the less I know about . . . I think all I should

Glenn Gould, tant de fois recopiée dans tant de carnets successifs : « La visée de l’art n’est pas la décharge momentanée d’une sécrétion d’adrénaline mais la construction patiente, sur la durée d’une vie entière, d’un état de quiétude et d’émerveillement. »

Emmanuel Carrère • Yoga (Fiction) (French Edition)

Start somewhere bad to get somewhere good. A few weeks ago, I interviewed psychologist Adam Alter about his book Anatomy of a Breakthrough . In it, he writes about the “creative cliff illusion,” the notion that good creative ideas will either come quickly or not at all. Unfortunately, our intuition has that one approximately backward. In studies of... See more

David Epstein • Pour Out Lesser Ideas to Get to Great Ones

To see what no human has seen before, to know what no human has known before, to create as no human has created before, it may be necessary to see as if through eyes that have never seen, know through a mind that has never thought, create with hands that have never been trained. This is beginner’s mind—one of the most difficult states of being to d

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Perhaps this is the right time to big up my friend Bono, as one of the great singers and improvisers. His ability to transform the direction of a piece of music is really something. Once he gets to that zone, it’s like some other being has entered his body as he challenges the rest of us to rise to that same level of nonthinking, only performing. T

Daniel Lanois • Soul Mining: A Musical Life

Ed Sheeran and Neil Gaiman are in the top 0.000001% of their fields. They're among, say, 25 people in the world who repeatedly generate blockbusters.

If two world-class creators share the exact same creative process, I get curious. Also, while writing this, I found a video of John Mayer doing the same thing.

I call their approach the Creativity Fauce

Julian Shapiro • Highlights 🥑 Why Your Ideas Are So Bad

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