Reading Notes
1-2 Minute Read | Laptop or Tablet Recommended
Topics and Themes
A good kick in the ass to inspire more creativity and overcome hesitation; Triggering the artistic process.
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It's time for some tough love: The fastest way to create anything is to create something, right now.
No hesitation. No waiting until the right moment. No waiting for inspiration.
Plain and simple: Just jump in. Do it now.
What are you waiting for? Are you waiting to be good enough to create anything? I dare say you're good enough right now to create. Even if it's minuscule and modest. Even if no one will ever read it, view it, or hear it. You don't have to share what you created with anyone at all. It can be your little secret.
Are you waiting to feel inspired? That sounds like a complete waste of time to me. You lure inspiration by teasing it, by creating something immediately. You jump in. And when inspiration does show up, the whole world stops. You're in the flow. You are creating what you're meant to create. That's inspired action, baby.
Are you waiting for the right moment? Again, what a waste of time. You mean to tell me you'd rather put off the fun of writing a song, creating the next poem, or painting the next painting because the moment isn't right?
Poppycock.
There's always a moment to create. You could create the bare minimum each day. You could write one line of a new poem, plug a couple of cables on your eurorack synth, make up ten seconds of choreography, draw one long beautiful line of a pencil portrait, sing for thirty seconds. There's always a moment.
Quit fucking around.
The fastest way to create anything is to create something, now.