Last week, on the @10percent Happier podcast with @danbharris, meditation teacher Jeff Warren talked about the four most important habits in life.
They're the same four habits great creators apply to their work.
Here they are, in Jeff's words:
The first habit is concentration: the skill of calm.
When we focus, there's a tendency for the thing we're focusing on to become more stable.
And if we hold our attention long enough, we can have the experience of flowing and merging with that activity or object.
The second habit is clarity: the skill of discernment.
This is the part of us capable of panning out to a broader perspective and zooming in to notice previously unconscious habits of thinking and responding.
Anything that teaches self-awareness boosts the habit of clarity.
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A distillation of what @naval, @shl, and @benthompson said about the creator economy on Clubhouse this weekend:
Naval: To be a good creator, you have to be creative, and being creative means constantly creating things.
You’re not just creating something; creativity is who you are and what you do. You're always creating things in your domain. Nonstop. Constantly.
Naval: There's a tinkering mentality that can keep you ahead of the curve.
Most successful creators are tinkerers. They just play at the edges of their field on something that’s interesting to them, but they don’t do it with a strong motive. They’re genuinely interested.
To make writing easier, ask what would make it impossible:
Writing’s hard because every time you write, you’re working on two problems at once.
The first is a language and syntax problem made up of words and sentences, and the second is a meaning and structure problem made up of concepts and themes.
These two problems are interconnected, and they can’t be solved independent of each other.