Utterly brilliant. So much on creativity is cliched - this is the opposite. Every creative idea I’ve had can be traced to one of these points - not that I would have been able to articulate it like this or known how to recreate it. I do now thanks to this list . Many thanks for the great posts as always. One other way I find is rituals - coffee and a candle. Don’t know why but my writing is better when I have those by my laptop!
So is creativity and productivity two sides of a scale?
Creativity is about doing novel things to get new inputs in the brain for more diverse outputs. Productivity is about output output output. Predictable, known.
So is it one side can be maxed out but the other side suffers ?
My best ruminations gets solved just before I wake up, when I am emerging from sleep but not opened the eyes yet ... Not dreaming, but not awaken yet ( alpha ? )
So I wake up ... 5 times a day ...
From micro naps ... ( 20 to 5 mn , depends) ...
This is a variant of your 4 ( time zone ) and 5 (bathroom) and 9 ( no boxer short required )
Been doing this since 2016 (!) and my deep work is just flowy ...
Over time, my nap time reduced
As I get trained to fall asleep quicker and quicker ...
I investigated NS, seems to be linked to DMN , ( Default Mode Network ), the brain «reorganising» at rest
yes, and there are case you cant decide like this , besides self doubt. in very emerging situation, its better to "rest on a case", to enable agency . this is beyond "solve the case", because what is needed is a new viewpoint, a new worldview is to be created.
Love seeing Swedish House Mafia looking hella bored and sitting with it. I was so lucky to grow up in the 70s/80s and spend a lot of time bored out of my skull… where it was totally on you to create something.
Utterly brilliant. So much on creativity is cliched - this is the opposite. Every creative idea I’ve had can be traced to one of these points - not that I would have been able to articulate it like this or known how to recreate it. I do now thanks to this list . Many thanks for the great posts as always. One other way I find is rituals - coffee and a candle. Don’t know why but my writing is better when I have those by my laptop!
Coffee and a candle. The two C's.
I love this! thanks for inspiring more creativity in the world.
One technique I use in my writing is to allow space to explore my most outlandish ideas. The bigger, grander and more absurd the better.
80% of the game is escaping self-imposed prisons.
Wow. I usually read stuff like this hoping for a kernel of useful info, but every one of these was as much of a banger as “one”.
Most substacks could’ve been a note. Good goal I try is to make a substack post that could’ve been 15 of them.
Keep these coming! 💪
So is creativity and productivity two sides of a scale?
Creativity is about doing novel things to get new inputs in the brain for more diverse outputs. Productivity is about output output output. Predictable, known.
So is it one side can be maxed out but the other side suffers ?
My best ruminations gets solved just before I wake up, when I am emerging from sleep but not opened the eyes yet ... Not dreaming, but not awaken yet ( alpha ? )
So I wake up ... 5 times a day ...
From micro naps ... ( 20 to 5 mn , depends) ...
This is a variant of your 4 ( time zone ) and 5 (bathroom) and 9 ( no boxer short required )
Been doing this since 2016 (!) and my deep work is just flowy ...
Over time, my nap time reduced
As I get trained to fall asleep quicker and quicker ...
I investigated NS, seems to be linked to DMN , ( Default Mode Network ), the brain «reorganising» at rest
Don’t out work your self doubt. Out nap your self doubt.
yes, and there are case you cant decide like this , besides self doubt. in very emerging situation, its better to "rest on a case", to enable agency . this is beyond "solve the case", because what is needed is a new viewpoint, a new worldview is to be created.
Ok but.
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Brilliant piece, bravo.
If I was your editor, I would say, actually, we’ve got three articles:
One’s about creativity (joke and translation)
Second about play (SHM and away days)
Third about agency/permission
And a compelling mystery:
60k subscribers at the start of your journey????
This is probably the most useful thing I’ve ever read
Surely the wealthy man has a home with parking
Love seeing Swedish House Mafia looking hella bored and sitting with it. I was so lucky to grow up in the 70s/80s and spend a lot of time bored out of my skull… where it was totally on you to create something.
Thank you
Alice Coltrane was basically a single parent for two weeks while John, in the attic, worked on what would be A Love Supreme.
Solitude.
I’ve never needed help being creative.
I’ve ALWAYS needed helping being wealthy.
I feel like the two are like oil and water. I haven’t found a good method to mix them yet. Any tips?! ANYONE??!
But drugs work too??