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Notes on cultivating a creative practice
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@amirazimi
BREAKTHROUGH: How to Get Unstuck and Achieve Anything
Lowering Standards to Boost Creativity
AI Key Takeaways
- Lowering your standards when it comes to creativity can help get the wheels turning
- Pouring out bad ideas can make room for good ones
- Privileging action over sitting around and strategizing can be helpful
@kevin
Rick Rubin: How to Access Your Creativity
The Number One Skill as an Artist
AI Key Takeaways
- It is important to be true to oneself as an artist, and to not let other voices influence one's work.
- It is important to have a strong sense of taste, and to not let other people's opinions get in the way of what one believes is best.
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@priscilla
825: Ozan Varol | How to Awaken Your Genius
Choosing Curiosity Over Victory in Conversations
AI Key Takeaways
- Going into an engagement with the goal of converting the other person to your side means you've already lost the battle
- Victory or procuriosity mindset often backfires, solidifying your beliefs instead of convincing others
- Curiosity over victory means leaning into the conversation with a scientist mindset
- Adopting a curious mindset leads to less confrontational interactions
@eileen
Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative
The real practice of the artist is a noticing & curating practice
AI Key Takeaways
- Being an artist is more than just doing things a certain way; it's about being in the world and having sensitivity and data to create in a curated way.
- The real practice of the artist is living in a way that allows them to have sensitivity and data to create in a curated way.
@kevin
The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation
What Is Creativity?
AI Key Takeaways
- Creativity is a process of rearranging existing elements into novel combinations that reveals something fundamental about how we or the world works.
- It is often things that are useful, such as technology or vehicles, that are considered to be creative.
- Creativity can be seen as a way to change the way we interact with the world, by opening up new portals to ourselves and the world.
@katiedalebout
The Top Five Questions People Always Ask Us
The War of Art: Finding Motivation and Overcoming Resistance
AI Key Takeaways
- The book 'War of Art' is highly recommended for those dealing with resistance and self-doubt.
- Resistance is a normal part of pursuing one's sacred work.
- Habits can provide stability and help push through challenges.
- Resistance is a sign that you're moving in the right direction.
@eileen
Morgan Harper Nichols on art and perception
Carving Out Space for Writing in Your Own Way
AI Key Takeaways
- Carving out personal space before writing can help with the writing process
- Exploring personal interests and ideas can be beneficial before adhering to structure
- Writing in a school environment may create a perception that writing is solely for grades
- Having personal journals can create a positive association with writing
- Not everyone has access to resources that encourage creative writing
- Different forms of journaling can be just as valuable as traditional journaling
@valeria
#648: James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (and Breaking) Habits, Questions for Personal Mastery and Growth, Tactics for Writing and Launching a Mega-Bestseller, Finding Leverage, and More
A System for Creative Outputs
AI Key Takeaways
- Systems can take many different forms.
- A physical system that can help with productivity is leaving your phone in another room.
- Creating a physical environment that benefits habits is a system example.
- Digital systems can also be used to improve productivity.
- The example given for a digital system is a weekly newsletter with three short ideas, two quotes, and one question in each.
@camcallahan
Die Empty Part Seven: Conquering Fear
Fame is a By Product of Seeking Originality
AI Key Takeaways
- Steve Martin spent 18 years doing stand-up comedy, with ten years spent learning, four years refining, and four years of wild success.
- Fame is a by-product and not an ambition.
- Originality is key to producing a body of work that you can be proud of.
- The fear of failure can paralyze you, and impostor syndrome can also be a hindrance to creativity.
@eleetyson
The Cultural Tutor, on Writing Every Day, Growing a Twitter Audience, and Reading Old Books
Read differently to think differently
AI Key Takeaways
- Reading different books can lead to a different perspective and output.
- Exploring books outside of the mainstream can help in finding one's voice as a writer.
- Reading something different can contribute to being distinctive as a writer.
@DandyLyons
Feist
The Cognitive Dissonance Between Doing and Absorbing
AI Key Takeaways
- Writing can be very difficult, even for professional writers
- Experiencing self-loathing and impostor syndrome is a common part of the writing process
- Being the writer and the reader at the same time causes cognitive dissonance
- Creating a buffer between writing and reading can be helpful
- The key is to keep writing even if it's difficult
@hussainweb
Sci-fi writer Andy Weir doesn't love writing
The Importance of Incremental Progress in Finding Intrinsic Motivation
AI Key Takeaways
- It's hard to love something you're terrible at
- Incremental progress should be celebrated
- Being proud of progress can create intrinsic motivation
@arman
Leonardo Da Vinci (Part 2)
Passion versus Obligation in Work
AI Key Takeaways
- The beauty of movement was a huge motivator for the person being discussed
- Investigating movements resulting from one element penetrating another was a fundamental curiosity of his
- He found beauty in nature, biology, astronomy, mathematics, and art
- Steve Jobs also valued aesthetics and thought it was important to make amazing and beautiful products
- Expressing appreciation to humanity can be done by making something wonderful and putting it out there
@hmm
Rory Sutherland
The Butterfly Effect
AI Key Takeaways
- The time it takes to write something doesn't necessarily reflect the importance of the task.
- Creativity often involves seeming laziness and a lack of focus.
- Obsessing over small details can have a significant impact.
- Making unconventional choices can lead to transformative results.
- A tiny difference can sometimes have a greater effect than a big change.
- Our control over certain outcomes is limited.
@eileen
How to Finish more Projects you Start
The pressure to make creativity productive
AI Key Takeaways
- Many individuals struggle to justify spending time on non-productive creations, such as creative pursuits, due to societal pressures to make it worthwhile.
- People often feel the need to tie their creative pursuits to productivity, profit, or societal betterment, which can corrupt the initial desire for creativity.
- Business coaching can be beneficial for those who are struggling to find direction in their entrepreneurial pursuits.
@hmm
Brian Eno: The Innovator
Making Music that is Like a River
AI Key Takeaways
- The speaker reflects on their experience in an airport and how the carefully crafted design impacted their perception.
- The speaker noticed a seemingly overlooked detail in the airport that stood out to them.
- The speaker considered what type of music would be appropriate in an airport setting.
- The music choice should take into consideration the need to hear announcements and not be too loud.
@ona
I can't make products just for 41 year old tech founders," Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on taking it back to the basics
working with Johnny Ive: Brian Chesky @Airbnb
AI Key Takeaways
- Airbnb's new logo, known as their current logo, was designed by Johnny Ive after he provided feedback on the continuous curvature and redesigned the spleen of the curve.
- Airbnb has a long-standing deal with Johnny Ive and his agency, Love From.
- The relationship between Airbnb and Johnny Ive began in 2014 when he provided feedback on their logo design, and they started talking more in 2020 during a crisis period for Airbnb.
@hussainweb
The psychology of fiction with Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Challenges of telling a good story in nonfiction writing
AI Key Takeaways
- Good nonfiction writing involves starting with a counterintuitive insight and telling a compelling story with evidence and people that both surprises and convinces the reader
- Writing fiction involves figuring out the ending and planting just enough seeds throughout the story, similar to good nonfiction writing
- It is possible to mess up everything leading to the end, even after figuring out where the story is going to end
@kokaloc
Hans Zimmer - Dune
The Purpose of Music is to Create an Experience
AI Key Takeaways
- Music should let you know that you can have an experience but never tell you what the experience is.
- Music should take you on a journey that is different every time.
@eleetyson
129: George Mack on Ignored Ideas, Creativity Hacks, Game Psychology, US vs. UK & Finding The Right Metrics
Tweak inputs to improve creative output
AI Key Takeaways
- There is a lack of content on how to be creative compared to how to be productive.
- Being creative is individualistic and can be applied to individuals.
- Not everyone may be creative, but everyone can be productive.
- The industrial and Victorian eras may have influenced the current view of creativity.
- The brain has inputs and outputs, with creativity being an output that is novel and useful.
- People often make the mistake of using the same input multiple times for productivity, while they should focus on getting new inputs for creativity.
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