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Pretending to be another person to the point where you can recreate their thinking and come up with new ideas and alternate possible realities.What if Einstein decided to become a fashion designer? https://t.co/UFWy2GHJL5
I believe you can similarly study and reverse engineer public intellectuals throughout history and become a successful one yourself I believe this is also relatedly true of scenes and the ānobody actually bothersā part is quite critical itās a lot of work people donāt wna do
Not only was Einstein a fashion designer, he invented a fucking refrigerator.Get bored and do weird shit. You never know what might stick.https://t.co/M7ohBtj7HM
Have you tried capturing lightning in a bottle?https://t.co/n7HKdVSpK1Those weird nagging ideas in your head? Why not write them down. You might be a genius and not even realize it.https://t.co/LUHLOQGLK9
Gregor Mendel was a meteorologist.Fucked around with plants as a monk.Wrote it down.https://t.co/V1W2RVZwUYNow we have gene theory.https://t.co/Je10PVUFlc
How many ideas are lost to time because someone didn't believe in themselves enough to bother?Most ideas suck. Some suck more than others. Don't let the good ones get lost in the shuffle.https://t.co/xPeQFEV8Pdhttps://t.co/Z2pOkgHRSO
That part of you that tells you it can't or that it isn't worth trying? Tell it to fuck off.If you believe your ideas aren't any good, that one in particular should also be held the most suspect.Why is that thought there? Who put that there? https://t.co/bMH60dX9C3
How are you ever supposed to learn to spot good ideas if you don't start collecting them and trying to see patterns in what works and what doesn't?https://t.co/VQXbG0jYsD
They don't even have to be your own. Find someone you resonate with. Or some concept, or some interesting thing. Maybe your mentor is some weird ass guy 800 years ago who inspired Leonardo Da Vinci?https://t.co/B9ARGNk2LY
āThe men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.āā Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebookshttps://t.co/at27CLBq2Q
Maybe you are really into baseball statistics. Where could that take you?https://t.co/08OoSGqbLRMost of my ideas are derived from just thinking about why I fart so much.https://t.co/C3S3fAq6Oy
Something has to resonate with you, maybe not as literally as thinking about how farts bellow out of your ass, but something must catch your attention. What fascinates you?I bet you know more about it than you realize.https://t.co/Nierbg3xdK
Find out what that is and create something with it. Write it down. Create a play with friends. Build something with clay. Draw a picture. Heck, just go out in the snow and make shapes with your pee.Have fun with it. You are allowed to enjoy weird ideas.https://t.co/w3M8d5yjJE
"something that is uniquely ours. It is something we have created, that no one else can replicate (nefarious motives aside) in true likeness. [...] Let's not lose that piece of ourselves that once was our permission, our safety, our original brand."https://t.co/TKxzKEIYEq https://t.co/0B3knXETrB
Find the joy of a child who's happy about their piece of shit art taped to a refrigerator. "The first requirement to do genius-level work is to not be afraid to do things only geniuses can do"https://t.co/OJ4ulRdrZA
Press on.https://t.co/bODpAdDfn7
@visakanv Itās a group superpower. Tolkien would never have finished the LOTR without Lewis encouraging him and urging him on. He very nearly abandoned the whole project and said that his decision to press on was āchiefly due to the encouragementā of Lewis. (Bandersnatch, Glyer)
Creativity is like a muscle. You can learn to get better at it.One of the best ways to learn something is to seek out others who'll nourish you in your curiosity.https://t.co/SSSEchIN5P
Iām very inspired by Miles Davisās approach to creativity and collaboration. People often assume that this sort of guy must have a huge ego and be really selfish, yet you can see that he had this amazing sense of how to nourish creativity in others, and they loved him for it https://t.co/m33aEnD79l
Maybe your ideas suck because you haven't found someone who can play off of it and make it sound better.Bouncing ideas off other people lets you see how they sound. Maybe they don't suck as much as you think?https://t.co/YsXtamVvlI
the joy of creativity is to play with others. the more we encourage other people to play better, the more we make other people sound good, the larger and stronger the pool of talent we have to play with and create greatness with. This is how we build scenes https://t.co/D62mHVuQPJ
Albert Einstein was also a musician. His mom used it to teach him to not throw tantrums."his mother would figure out what he was interested in, supply him with materials, provide whatever supports were necessary"https://t.co/3QOpk4aucu
One of my friends in highschool got kicked out when he had a tantrum threw a chair at his teacher. He was brilliant.I learned more valuable lessons about physics from him teaching me about bicycles & skateboarding than I did from physics class that year.https://t.co/EMhXWDFzNI
Speak friend, then enter.https://t.co/eNWRnSqP44
Find friends that challenge you(r ideas)."But he has approached them all at a different angle. He has read all the right books but has got the wrong thing out of every one. It is as if he spoke your language but mispronounced it." ā C.S. Lewis, 1955https://t.co/Xdycx7T7Ej https://t.co/JcC4fvrp41
Speak weirdness to truth, and spit truth at power.https://t.co/xS3y4Egs9s
@AlexJournal2019 @bpoppenheimer He started with poetry, and before he worked on LOTR he explored the Finnish Kalevala - which is an 'epic' poem.I think the inklinkgs were alchemists, or some of them where. C.S. Lewis in particular may have been his conduit.https://t.co/96hyqs5sFghttps://t.co/xlypGebcqJ
A good friend might have a part of the map you don't.https://t.co/gTPdgWn5fv