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The importance of practice and repetition in learning
How to stay motivated and avoid burnout while learning
How to break down complex concepts into manageable parts
Applying to creativity
At the beginning of a writing session, write out every bad idea that unavoidably comes to mind. Instead of being self-critical and resisting them, recognize bad ideas as progress.
Once the bad ideas are emptied, strong ideas begin to arrive.
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Mozart had 600 musical compositions and Edison had 1093 patents. Only a few are remembered today, and that's the point.
JULIAN SHAPIRO
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The Creativity Faucet
Visualize your creativity as a backed-up pipe of water. The first mile is packed with wastewater.
This wastewater must be emptied before the clear water arrives.
Because your pipe has only one faucet, there's no shortcut to achieving clarity other than first emptying the wastewater.
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Why does this work ?
Once you've generated enough bad output, your mind reflexively identifies which elements caused the badness. Then it becomes good at avoiding them. You start pattern-matching interesting and novel ideas with greater intuition.
Most creators resist their bad ideas and never reach the clear w...
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Ed Sheeran and Neil Gaiman
Ed and Neil are in the top 0.000001% of their fields. They're among, say, 25 people in the world who repeatedly generate blockbusters.
They both share the exact same creative process The creativity faucet.
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Generalist. Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
A mental model for being creative.
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Advice to aspiring writers
Write. You have to practice to get better. If nothing else, write a journal.
Become a connoisseur of bad writing. When you spot something that seems bad, try to figure out why. Once you become good at finding mistakes, you'll be less likely to make them.
Writing to shape your mind frames
Taking the time to write can quickly increase your ability to shape your mind frames to achieve your goals.
- Growth mindset. It would be absurd to always write about the exact same thing. Writing regularly will push you to progress and keep learning.
How To Recover From Creative Burnout: Strict, Yet Realistic Deadlines
For example, if you need to write a chapter of a book, instead of sitting down and looking at a black page for hours on end, break it up into tiny increments and set tight deadlines (such as 250 words every 20 minutes).
Not only will you not have time to become se...
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