Want to write something new?
Do what creators have always done: take the counsel of other creators.
Thread 👇on the creative process, taking the counsel of
@david_perell @fortelabs @intentionally
Do what creators have always done: take the counsel of other creators.
Thread 👇on the creative process, taking the counsel of
@david_perell @fortelabs @intentionally
Technology has changed but the system to take the counsel of other creators hasn’t:
1.Play with ideas in a common place;
2.Arrange them into something new.
What’s changed is how we discover the counsel of others.
1.Play with ideas in a common place;
2.Arrange them into something new.
What’s changed is how we discover the counsel of others.
In the past, writers had a special way of consuming the printed word. Books made it easy to play with ideas in a common place, and Erasmus popularized a way to arrange ideas into something new.
Today, writers have a special way of consuming the internet.
Today, writers have a special way of consuming the internet.
They break it into parts and put it back together in a new pattern.
They don’t *consume* content, they *consult content*, and they don’t consume for *discovery*, they consume for *action*.
They don’t *consume* content, they *consult content*, and they don’t consume for *discovery*, they consume for *action*.
Actively consuming the internet has a magical effect on those who do it.
It removes barriers to the act of creation…it makes reading and writing inseparable…and *it makes people into writers.* ✍️
It removes barriers to the act of creation…it makes reading and writing inseparable…and *it makes people into writers.* ✍️
"…For the world was full of signs: you could read your way through it; and by keeping an account of your readings, you made a book of your own, one stamped with your personality."
-Robert Darnton, “Extraordinary Commonplaces,” New York Review of Books, (December 21, 2000)
-Robert Darnton, “Extraordinary Commonplaces,” New York Review of Books, (December 21, 2000)
I close with words in observation of Earth Day & World Book Day.
The naturalist John Muir, Father of our National Parks, philosopher and writer, took the counsel of another great creator, Mother Nature. He looked at the world the way creators look at books and the internet...
The naturalist John Muir, Father of our National Parks, philosopher and writer, took the counsel of another great creator, Mother Nature. He looked at the world the way creators look at books and the internet...
Consult the Leadership Letter, consume it for action, and take the counsel of other creators.
There's no better place on the internet than the @visualizevalue community
letter.substack.com/p/how-to-write…
There's no better place on the internet than the @visualizevalue community
letter.substack.com/p/how-to-write…
