Circadian Shift

Over at Gaping Void, Hugh has started a list of thoughts about how to be creative. My favourite ones:

2. Creativity is a process, not a fixed state.

You never really reach your goals. By the time you get near to fulfilling them your criteria has already changed. Results-driven definitions of success are counter-productive to being creative, to finding new markets or possibilities.

3. Put the hours in.

Doing anything worthwhile takes forever. 90% of what seperates successful people and failed people is time and stamina.

12. Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb.

You may never reach the summit; for that you will be forgiven. But if you don't make at least one seriously honest effort to get above the snow-line, years later you will find yourself lying on your deathbed, and all you will feel is emptiness.

Meanwhile...

Contentious writes about How Arranging Ideas Spawns New Ideas.

And Good Morning Thinkers passes along a list of Idea Facilitation Tips. (This will to come in handy on Thursday, when I'm locked in a brainstorming meeting chez office.)