Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
Mark Levyamazon.com
Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
So let’s start with ingredients. How do we cultivate the right ingredients for great idea fermenting?
III: Ingredients
There are two levels of thinking going on in our heads at any time. There’s the more active and conscious part of your brain that’s reading this article and which you think of as doing the “thinking.” Then a subconscious, processin... See more
III: Ingredients
There are two levels of thinking going on in our heads at any time. There’s the more active and conscious part of your brain that’s reading this article and which you think of as doing the “thinking.” Then a subconscious, processin... See more
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
You look up and stare out the window again, but this time you are drumming your fingers on the desk, and you don’t care about those first three pages; those you will throw out, those you needed to write to get to that fourth page, to get to that one long paragraph that was what you had in mind when you started, only you didn’t know that, couldn’t k
... See moreAnne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Shawn and I start almost all our writing by journalling in long- hand (pencil and paper); either Morning Pages, or any expression of freewriting (see Accidental Genius, one of our favorite nonfiction books of all time).
We’ve found there is no better way (for us) to bump into non- obvious ideas and discover meaningful head-slapping insights than by ... See more
We’ve found there is no better way (for us) to bump into non- obvious ideas and discover meaningful head-slapping insights than by ... See more
What if you dropped some acid and did your goal setting? Or wrote out your bucket list right after you went skydiving and were still high on adrenaline? Just imagine being off in a thrilled, altered state as you start mapping out your future.