How to Force Creativity
Step #1: Realize creativity is to be forced in the first place
True creatives know that creativity is forced.
Most people think that creativity is some magical happenstance, and that if you wait, inspiration will strike.
While it’s true in a way, that “strike” doesn’t happen unless you’ve set up the right constraints for it to do so.
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
You can’t be idle. You have to do something.
Step #1: Realize creativity is to be forced in the first place
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