The journalist Mason Currey, who spent half a decade cataloging the habits of famous thinkers and writers {and from whom I learned the previous two examples}, summarized this tendency toward systematization as follows: There is a popular notion that artists work from inspiration-that there is some strike or bolt or bubbling up of creative mojo from who knows where… but I hope {my work} makes clear that waiting for inspiration to strike is a terrible, terrible plan. In fact, perhaps the single best piece of advice I can offer to anyone trying to do creative work is to ignore inspiration.
( Cal Newport )
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