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Created by @eileen
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Notes on cultivating a creative practice
@amirazimi
BREAKTHROUGH: How to Get Unstuck and Achieve Anything

Lowering Standards to Boost Creativity

2min
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

2min
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

3min
AI Key Takeaways
@eileen
Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative

The real practice of the artist is a noticing & curating practice

2min
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?

1min
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

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@eileen
Morgan Harper Nichols on art and perception

Carving Out Space for Writing in Your Own Way

4min
AI Key Takeaways
@valeria
James Clear
#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

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@camcallahan
I hate to break it to you but you may never become famous. You might become well known in a specific domain, and that's fine, but you won't become famous.
Die Empty Part Seven: Conquering Fear

Fame is a By Product of Seeking Originality

4min
AI Key Takeaways
@eleetyson
The Cultural Tutor explains why he doesn’t read anything written in the past 50 years
The Cultural Tutor, on Writing Every Day, Growing a Twitter Audience, and Reading Old Books

Read differently to think differently

48sec
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

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@hussainweb
Sci-fi writer Andy Weir doesn't love writing

The Importance of Incremental Progress in Finding Intrinsic Motivation

1min
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
The best advice you could ask for
Leonardo Da Vinci (Part 2)

Passion versus Obligation in Work

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@hmm
Rory Sutherland

The Butterfly Effect

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@eileen
You don’t have to turn everything into a side hustle. What would it feel like to pursue a creative passion without adding the pressure of it making money?
How to Finish more Projects you Start

The pressure to make creativity productive

2min
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

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@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

6min
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

2min
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

24sec
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
Why is there so much productivity content, but so little content about how to be more creative?
129: George Mack on Ignored Ideas, Creativity Hacks, Game Psychology, US vs. UK & Finding The Right Metrics

Tweak inputs to improve creative output

1min
AI Key Takeaways