“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”
— Ken Venturi
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Posts Tagged ‘creativity’
Better Than Ever
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Don’t Worry
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on April 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Don’t worry that you are moving slowly. Just be sure of what direction you are going in.”
— Nellie Biles, with advice to her daughter Simone
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Light the Way
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.”
― Charles M. Blow
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Part of the Process
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, persistence, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Getting stuck is part of the process. If you’re never stuck, you’re not doing anything thrilling, important, and/or daunting. Be patient, be kind, and rather than focus on where you’re stuck, do something to shift the stuckness.
— Michael Bungay Stanier
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Go On, Do It
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, inspiration, life, Thoughts on April 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”
— Mae Jemison, Doctor, Astronaut
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Writers, Pick Your Path
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #NoWriteWay, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 7, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Let’s put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.”
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Gears and Goals
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, writing on April 6, 2025| 1 Comment »
“Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”
— Charles M. Schulz
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Look Up!
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, hope, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on March 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Look up! Looking up gives us freedom and causes the shadows to slip right down our backs.
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The X% Rule
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, action, creativity, productivity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on March 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Here’s a way to approach projects, and life, from Oliver Burkeman:
The Imperfectionist: Seventy per cent
The 70% rule: If you’re roughly 70% happy with a piece of writing you’ve produced, you should publish it. If you’re 70% satisfied with a product you’ve created, launch it.
Do I believe this, as in, do I think that 70% is “good enough”? Not entirely.
Would I be more productive if I did? Absolutely.
And is most of my reluctance to sign onto this rule based in my little problem with perfectionism? Again, absolutely.
I do very much agree with the general idea:
I’m convinced it’s also the way to cultivate a particular kind of sane, action-focused, peaceful-but-energised approach to life that’s becoming more essential by the day. At the risk of offending any sticklers for traditional mathematics, I’m even tempted to argue that 70% is actually better than 100%, at least in this context.
So I think I’ll try to work my way down toward 70%. Will I get there? Maybe not, but when it comes to clearing away barriers to productivity, every step counts.
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Curiosity’s Catalyst
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, curiosity, failure, grace, humility, inspiration, integrity, knowledge, public libraries, Thoughts on March 28, 2025| 1 Comment »
“I don’t know” is not an admission of ignorance. It’s an expression of intellectual humility.
“I was wrong” is not a confession of failure. It’s a display of intellectual integrity.
“I don’t understand” is not a sign of stupidity. It’s a catalyst for intellectual curiosity.
— Adam Grant
And since we’re talking about knowledge and how to gain it, let’s hear it for libraries!
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