a space to think together—on creativity, attention, and work that matters.
Creativity is not a destination—it’s a lifelong journey.
Dedicating our time and attention to the creative act is one of the most promising, fruitful, satisfying, and courageous investments we can make in ourselves.
Once unleashed, it multiplies infinitely—each realized idea holds seeds for the next, just like fruit.
The art and challenge is to cultivate it in our lives with patience and faith.
Create choices before you make choices.
Divergent thinking is the ability to generate as many different ideas, options, or solutions as possible from a single starting challenge—such as a problem, task, question, or constraint.
In this early stage of the creative process, it’s all about quantity—not quality.
It’s about exploring and expanding possibilities—pushing approaches and directions. Especially the weird ones.
This is not the time for rules, restrictions, concerns, evaluations, judgments, or criticism.
Accept that, and the process begins to feel like play—twisting, turning, and transforming ideas in any way you can imagine.
Divergent thinking is the mental expansion before creative decisions are made.
The key is to let every single bit of mental data breathe.
No thought is trivial.
We’ll see which of them survives throughout the process.
Only then will a decision be made—and chances are high that it might be the best one.
If you are persistent you will get it. If you are consistent you will keep it.“
—Beeple
A simple boost to your productivity:
Deliberately created time pressure can be a mighty productivity tool.
For example, the next time you work outside in your favorite café or university, use the pressure of the declining battery power of your laptop or device to boost your focus.
“We live in an outcome-focused culture,” Seth Godin writes in his book The Practice.
During industrialization, this made sense—outcomes needed to be fast and predictable.
But we’re entering an era of automated results and democratized, open-source knowledge
—all just a tab away.
In the face of peak efficiency, one thing remains inimitable:
The process.
Not the generated one — the experienced one.
The unique, lived journey to the result.
That’s the place of personal growth, meaning, and creative confidence.
Continue reading “Creative Confidence”
“Short-term pain has more impact on most people than long-term benefits do.”
—Seth Godin
(Book: The Dip)
The blank page is never empty—it’s filled with doubts and fears.
You are not alone.
The fear of the blank page is real. Anyone who has ever tried to manifest their inner world—ideas, visions, perspectives—knows it does exist.
But where does it come from? Why is it so mighty that it can hinder so many ideas from blooming and enriching the world?
Because every imagination carries expectation.
The moment we bring it on paper, we start comparing our creation with that internal image or with other people’s work.
We expect it to look alike—and that’s a battle we can’t win.
To beat the blank page, we must learn to meet our expectations with kindness and flexibility.
Because…
The image on paper will never overlap exactly with the one in our mind.
Never.
That’s not failure. That’s the game.
And we can choose to enjoy it—despite waves of frustration and anxiety during the whole process.
Let go of expectations, and flow will follow.
Start ugly. But start.
Analog makes process tangible.
Digital makes it invisible.
A growing pile of drawings or filled notebooks becomes a physical trail—a reminder that we showed up.
In times of creative blocks and doubts this tangible proof serves in two ways:
When process casts shadows we realize the shape of our effort.