Notes

Creativity is indefinable. So you invert it.

It is not something you do. It’s not something you have or don’t have.

Creativity is who you are.

The creative realm is strange and mysterious. It’s illogical. It makes no sense. It’s a world of paradoxes.

You try to find it and it eludes you. Creativity is best accessed by realizing it’s not “you” pulling the strings.

There is no writer’s or artist’s block. There’s nothing in the way aside from yourself.

When you get out of the way, creativity flows without bounds.

There really is no such thing as final fact or capital-T truth.

What you know as fact now will eventually be disproven or reframed. Human knowledge grows like an organism. Someone always comes along and finds something new. Each new discovery leads to new questions you couldn’t see before. The cycle never ends.

You never arrive at absolute truth. Framing things as “facts” makes you defensive instead of curious.

If you frame everything you know as a misconception, it ironically orients you more toward seeking truth, even though you may never find it.

Maybe truth is a process, not an outcome.

Art isn’t painting, drawing, or filmmaking. Art is not a medium.

It’s anything you do for its own sake. Which means anything can be art.

Cooking can be art. Your morning routine can be art.

It’s a quality something has. It’s the energy behind why it was done.

Which also means anything you do purely with a goal in mind isn’t art.

What's already working gets ignored because it seems too easy. You focus on fixing what's broken instead of amplifying what works. This shows up everywhere. Forcing morning workouts when evening ones feel natural, grinding on hard problems when easier solutions exist. Its hard wired in your brain that harder is better. Do more of whats working.