Creativity is so weird. We talk about it just like it's a skill.
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Update to this: someone I respect and look up to hugely pushed back on this today, which was great.
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Essentially: creative work is done well in advance of when you need it.
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@starsandrobots ...and getting better at noticing what catalyzes their arrival (mindset, environment, people, etc.) -
@rezendi I mean, what are those things for you? -
@starsandrobots Travel, sleep, ambitious misfits. -
@rezendi that's helpful, though I feel I personally have yet to successfully identify any particular instigating factors :|
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@starsandrobots It would be a strange feeling to look toward the future and think "I will never have another flash of inspiration." -
@macegr what a weird thing to depend on! "tonight I will have a dream" -
@starsandrobots It's very rarely that. Usually inspiration for your next project is sparked by working on the current project. -
@macegr maybe for you! -
@starsandrobots I write stuff down (have many ideas written down). A lot of them, someone else does before I get the chance ;)
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@starsandrobots to me, the skill is in creating the conditions that help yield those insights more effectively - and then testing them :) -
@anxiaostudio what do you do?
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great book about that is “How to fly a horse”. Gist: creativity aren’t “eureka!” moments, but long, hard, solitary work
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