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- More Notes on Mastery
- [[creative process]] To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through political connections or easy formulas, or depend on our natural talents, we move against this grain and reverse our natural powers. We become slaves to time—as it passes, we grow weaker, less capable, trapped in some dead-end career. We become captive to the opinions and fears of others. Rather than the mind connecting us to reality, we become disconnected and locked in a narrow chamber of thought. The human that depended on focused attention for its survival now becomes the distracted scanning animal, unable to think in depth, yet unable to depend on instincts.
- More Notes on Mastery
- [[creative process]] What you are doing is creating some space in a cluttered culture, claiming for yourself an open field in which you can finally plant something new. People are dying for the new, for what expresses the spirit of the time in an original way. By creating something new you will create your own audience, and attain the ultimate position of power in culture.
- More Notes on Mastery
- Instead of a straight-line development from idea to fruition, the [[creative process]] is more like the crooked branching of a tree.
- Storyworthy –– Matthew Dicks
- The artificial demans of outlines, planning, organizers often subvert the [[creative process]] and force would-be writers to think about what they are writing before a word even hits the page, rather than allowing them to spill their guts and evaluate the material later.