Chukwu Emeka
Creativity and crazy. They go together like ginger and beer, aged cheese and fine wine, impressionist painters, and lead poisoning. One can hardly think of one without the other.
Almost by definition, creativity is the opposite of boring. If something is creative, it’s because it triggers some degree of surprise or excitement within us—it reconfigures existence in ways we could not have previously imagined
Creative people are not boring. Creative work is not boring. Therefore, we assume that the secret to creative success must not be boring.
I had a friend in college who wanted to be a famous novelist. After graduation, he bought a one-way ticket to Paris and intentionally became homeless for all of about three weeks, believing he had to suffer romantically to find inspiratio
It at their craft for decades to end up with a handful of classics that we revere today.10
Or, as Einstein once put it.