Creativity, First Class

By David Sherwin - August 19, 2010

Something people with creative jobs always struggle with, myself included, is that creativity often likes to take its sweet damned time. We're forced into all sorts of habits and rituals that we feel will help us get to ideas more quickly. Totems of one such ritual sits on my desk: a pile of postcards at least three inches tall, sent to my wife and me from people all over the world. They serve as a reminder that creativity flows from well-considered constraint, married to daily discipline.

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