I don’t believe in hard work but I do believe in love. “Hard” implies hardship. I don’t invite hardship to my short life. I don’t invite more hardship to this tormented world. And I definitely don’t believe HARDSHIP anyhow aids Creation. Love aids creation. Love brings life into this world, and love …
Tag: Creativity
Expectations Promise Mediocrity
Expectations promise mediocrity. Every expectation is a seed of countless limitations. Every limitation is a drop from the heights of true excellence. For the highest excellence to come into being – the path must be clear of impediments. Every idea you have about the outcome will limit you drastically. To excel one must forget …
Stealing Ideas
I will gladly steal the brilliant insights of greater then me and post them/ tweet them/ write a fucking book about them …as my own — because thats how little I care about looking good. Every idea known to men shall be repeated infinitely many times. You can’t really steal ideas. It’s like …
Invalidating The Rules
Invalidating the rules is more beneficial then validating them. There is no benefit from validating the held truths. Modus operandi stays the same – and so do the results. There is everything to gain from invalidating the status quo. Including better methods which lead to better yields. When you’re entering uncharted territory …
Repressed Psyche = Repressed Creativity
Repressed psyche = repressed creativity Psychological repression is creative repression. Art is liberating in the same way personal inhibitions stifle creativity. For creativity to blossom there must be freedom. Conversly: The very power of art is that it can destroy those impediments – bringing about the liberation necessary for it to …
Your Toolkit Expands With Your Creativity
Your toolkit expands proportionally to your creativity. The more creative you are — the broader the range of tools are you using. A huge toolbox of tools you have no idea how to use is useless. By idea – I mean a creative idea. You can have all the instruments in the world …
When You’re Not Looking For Solutions — You Find Ideas
When you’re not looking for solutions — you find ideas. When you’re looking for solutions — your vision is constrained by the question you have asked. Question you now feel compelled to answer. You have a certain problem, certain question, and you must solve it. There are many ways of reaching the solution. There …
Forced Creativity is just REPETITION
Forced creativity is just repetition. How do you enforce creativity? What are you enforcing? You have a standard, an ideal of being creative — and now you try to reach it. This standard is obviously repetition. Or else, it wouldn’t be a standard. So you are just repeating what someone did once, and was …
Standards Destroy Creativity And Spontaneity
“You have standards”. What does it mean to have standards? Does it not mean to have limits? Yes, you limit (save) yourself from the possibility of producing substandard work. You also limit yourself from the possibility of producing something brilliant. Do your standards predict genius? Do your standards encapsulate the genius? Standards destroy creativity. …
Excellence Is Anything But A Habit
Excellence is not a habit. Excellence is ANYTHING but a habit. Habit is mediocrity. Habit is repetition. Repetition is death. Habit, it is death. Excellence is not a habit. Else, fucking DEAD would be excellent. Nothing creative is born out of repetition, only more of the the same. To repeat is to change …