3-2-1: The secret to creativity, how our challenges shape us, and the value of bad workouts
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Answer To The Expectation
In many cases, what you hope to learn by reading books or listening to podcasts can only be learned by attempting what you fear. Some knowledge is only revealed through action.
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Secret To Creativity?
Creativity is the focused combination of unlikely things. Your mind locks onto a certain element and then searches widely for something unexpected that fits with it.
- What can scuba diving teach you about agriculture?
- What can trees teach you about public speaking?
There is always some connective tissue between disciplines. If you wish to be more creative, look for the connections between two previously unconnected things.
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When You Don't Feel Like Working Out
The bad workouts are the most important ones. It's easy to train when you feel good, but it's crucial to show up when you don't feel like it—even if you do less than you hope.
Going to the gym for 15 minutes might not improve your performance, but it reaffirms your identity. It's not always about what happens during the workout. It's about becoming the type of person who doesn't miss workouts.
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And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over.
But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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"I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it."
JOAN DIDION
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The Fear, The Creativity, The Bad Workout & The Storm.
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