[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Creativity]] - People: [[Van Neistat]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkG1TcGh8q8 --- ## Summary - [[Capture ideas in the pieces they come in. Eventually, with patience, the puzzle will reveal itself.]] - [[Every project has a wall. Makes you want to quit every time.]] - [[Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work]]. - [[The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing]]. ## Notes ### Stuck - Breakthroughs are sought when you're stuck. When you're stuck, take a break. - "Breakthroughs come from without." ### Fragments - "I get ideas in fragments...it's as if in the other room, there's a puzzle; all the pieces are together. But in my room, they just flip one piece at a time into me. The first piece that I get is a fragment of the whole puzzle, but I fall in love with this fragment...and it holds a promise for more. I keep it, I write it down. And then I say that having the fragment is more bait on the hook...it pulls in more, and the more that come in, the faster the rest come in." - David Lynch. - Ideas will come, especially if you're looking for them. However, they may not be the ideas you want, especially if you need them now. - [[Capture ideas in the pieces they come in. Eventually, with patience, the puzzle will reveal itself.]] - The pieces are the small ideas. The completed puzzle are the small ideas in aggregate - the big idea. ### The wall - [[Every project has a wall. Makes you want to quit every time.]] - [[The walls mark the boundaries between comfort and growth - who you are now and who you can become]]. - Get your setup right. Keep doing the work. [[Always be knolling]]. You never know when inspiration will strike; when you will have your breakthrough. - [[Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work]]. - [[The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing]]. - [[The best way out is always through]]. ## See also - [[Creativity is intelligence having fun]] - [[You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.]] - [[Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.]] - [[Vision without execution is just hallucination]]