How To Seduce a Muse
We are surrounded by ideas, checking us out, seizing us up for a dependable partner to bring them to fruition. Here are 11 ways to stand out in the idea dating pool to show them you’re the one
Please don’t freak out now, but something’s watching you. A disembodied, energetic life-form is checking you out to see if maybe you’re the one for it to make magic with. It’s an idea, perhaps many of them. That’s how inspiration works, according to bestseller author and expert on creativity Elizabeth Gilbert. “It is only through a human’s efforts that an idea can be escorted out of the ether and into the realm of the actual,” Gilbert writes in Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. “Therefore, ideas spend eternity swirling around us, searching for available and willing human partners.”
They will take care of the magic part, all you have to do is keep your eyes and ears open and signal that you’re the right candidate to bring them into life. Maybe one is eyeballing you right now, contemplating if you’re serious about putting the work in and creating something.
