Notes | Substack
Whether through dreams or ‘gap time’ in our schedules, creativity is something that natures through us when we give it the room it needs. “It takes a lot of time to be a genius,” wrote Gertrude Stein, “you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
The single biggest commonality that every thinker you’d consider as a generational genius has had is room to think. Sometimes enforced, like with Newton and the plague years, sometimes chosen, like Darwin and his extended voyages, and sometimes through creative work life balance, like Einstein during his patent clerk years.
Henry Oliver • On Thinkers and Doers - By Rohit - Strange Loop Canon
After investing all this time in creating their paintings, when they were finished, the artists didn’t triumphantly gaze at what they had made and show it off and seek out praise for it. Almost all of them simply put the painting away and started working on another
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
To work, mind and body, and to be alone enough to concentrate is the thing.