Letter 003 - Bluegrass, trees and speeding fines
If you are an experienced writer, and you show people your work, there are four questions you need to ask: Where were you bored? Where could you not understand what was going on? Where did you not find things credible? Was there anything that you found emotionally confusing?
John Cleese • Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
If you’re going to do high-level creative work, you have to accept the messiness of your initial creations, knowing that excellence is born from the sisters of patience and iteration.
The second you start condemning young and fragile ideas, you’re toast.
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David Perellx.com" In 1940, an advertising executive named James Webb Young published a short guide titled, A Technique for Producing Ideas. "- JC