creativity is relaxation - by Scott - inner mythologies

The essence of creativity is making novel connections between existing ideas. Here’s how Steve Jobs put it: Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. But “just seeing something” is harder than it seems. To make a creative connection, we need to sense the wide variety of existing ideas, and the potential relationships between them. In part, this sense of possibility comes from diverse life experience: meeting interesting folks, going to inspiring places, reading nourishing books, etc. But another part of it is somatic: how we feel in our body & mind, and how that affects our ability to perceive the world around us.  🌞 a weekly newsletter for conscious self-creation 🪴 join 600+ subscribers: In The Master and His Emissary, n

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