Creativity faucet: How to be more creative
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- Author: julian.com
- Full Title: Creativity faucet: How to be more creative
- URL: https://julian.com/blog/creativity-faucet
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Let’s apply this to creativity: At the beginning of a writing session, write out every bad idea that reflexively comes to mind. Instead of being self-critical and resisting these bad ideas, accept them. Once the bad ideas are emptied, strong ideas begin to arrive. Here’s my guess as to why: Once you’ve generated enough bad output, your mind starts to reflexively identify which elements caused the badness. Then it begins to avoid them. You start pattern-matching novel ideas with greater intuition. (View Highlight)