Seth's Blog: Random rules for ideas worth spreading
solid list.
Use an Idea Embargo to Keep Focused
It’s a week before a major project is due and suddenly someone comes up with a great idea. That great idea can derail the project and make delivery late. Use an idea embargo to keep the focus.
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It’s made up of all those who’ve consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners — and I could list a hundred more professions … A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
― Wislawa Szymborska (via azspot)
50% of the reason I shower is for the inspired ideas I get during. I’ll let you guess the other 50%
How to Get Lightning to Strike Twice
If you want to direct lightning to strike a certain target, you erect a lightning rod. The lightning rod is frequently struck because of its particular construction, material and positioning. To become a lightning rod for inspiration, you have to pay attention to very similar things.
Part of that is setting up this filter in your brain that’s like, “I’m working on this thing now.” So, everything I read, everything I look at, and everything everybody says to me is put through this filter of the project I’m working on. “Is this useful?” Everything you’re telling me right now is first going through a filter of, “Is there something in there that I can use on the project that I’m working on?” and then it passes through and I answer you.
― Gamasutra - Features - Valve’s Writers And The Creative Process
The Choreographer Paul Taylor's Dwelling
3. Inspiration: I don’t believe in it. People think some muse comes down and strikes. Well, making a dance is just plain work like anything else. The inspiration is the deadline.
you had a great idea! high five! everyone does. some people have better ideas than others and maybe it's easier for them as well.
but why?!
we're paying attention to the things we're doing, physically & mentally, when these ideas hit us. trying to look for clues and make connections.
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