Einstein once said "Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought."
Did you know you can be more creative by following a certain approach that many great people like Ed Sheeran and Neil Geiman employ?
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Did you know you can be more creative by following a certain approach that many great people like Ed Sheeran and Neil Geiman employ?
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Introducing you to "The Creativity Faucet"
Now, visualize your creativity as a backed-up pipe of water. The first mile is packed with wastewater.
This wastewater must be emptied before the clear water arrives.
Now, visualize your creativity as a backed-up pipe of water. The first mile is packed with wastewater.
This wastewater must be emptied before the clear water arrives.
Because your pipe has only one faucet, there's no shortcut to achieving clarity other than first emptying the wastewater.
Why does this work?
Once you've generated enough bad output, your mind reflexively identifies which elements caused the badness. Then it becomes good at avoiding them. You start pattern-matching interesting and novel ideas with greater intuition.
Once you've generated enough bad output, your mind reflexively identifies which elements caused the badness. Then it becomes good at avoiding them. You start pattern-matching interesting and novel ideas with greater intuition.
Most creators resist their bad ideas and never reach the clear water. If you've opened a blank document, scribbled a few thoughts, then walked away because you weren't struck with gold, then you too never got past it.
Applying this approach to more creative !
At the beginning of a writing session, write out every bad idea that unavoidably comes to mind.
At the beginning of a writing session, write out every bad idea that unavoidably comes to mind.
Instead of being self-critical and resisting them, recognize bad ideas as progress. Once the bad ideas are emptied, strong ideas begin to arrive.
Thread based on one of my most favourite writer's blog article.
Link to the article: julian.com
Link to the article: julian.com
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