It can certainly be a trying process and requires a healthy amount of self motivation. Sometimes I just need to take a day or two break, but I always come back with a renewed passion. I guess coming back to it is the trick.
100% The discipline is coming back to the problem again. And again. If you just obsess about it, you don't make progress as fast as you do if you obsess, but it down and obsess again.
The reason for this, I think, is that you're conscious brain doesn't have that much horsepower. Your subconscious does all the work. So by thinking about it, you're asking your subconscious a question. Then you have to give it time to do it's work. Et voila, an idea/answer pops out.
Same with learning an instrument or strength training. You go to the point of failure, then you rest. While you rest, the magic happens. Lifting the heavy thing isn't the magic, it's taking time to properly recover.
I've been paying the rent with this process my whole life, but when the good idea comes, it's still always a surprise. It helps to be addicted to "Eureka"!
Maybe it's like this: You know where you want to go, but not how to get there, so you need to wait until a path randomly opens up, and subconsciously be on the lookout for when it happens. And it might not even let you go where you originally wanted to go, but close enough?
My buddy Sean has a related comment that he uses with young creatives -- "If you can come up with one good idea, you can come up with 10." To which I quipped, and if you can't come up with 10, your one idea isn't a good one."
It can certainly be a trying process and requires a healthy amount of self motivation. Sometimes I just need to take a day or two break, but I always come back with a renewed passion. I guess coming back to it is the trick.
100% The discipline is coming back to the problem again. And again. If you just obsess about it, you don't make progress as fast as you do if you obsess, but it down and obsess again.
The reason for this, I think, is that you're conscious brain doesn't have that much horsepower. Your subconscious does all the work. So by thinking about it, you're asking your subconscious a question. Then you have to give it time to do it's work. Et voila, an idea/answer pops out.
Same with learning an instrument or strength training. You go to the point of failure, then you rest. While you rest, the magic happens. Lifting the heavy thing isn't the magic, it's taking time to properly recover.
I've been paying the rent with this process my whole life, but when the good idea comes, it's still always a surprise. It helps to be addicted to "Eureka"!
Maybe it's like this: You know where you want to go, but not how to get there, so you need to wait until a path randomly opens up, and subconsciously be on the lookout for when it happens. And it might not even let you go where you originally wanted to go, but close enough?
Insurance guy, checking in. I feel seen.
You're all stable and well-adjusted. Where's the art! WHURS THE ART!
Excellent, thank you.
"Work as hard as you can to come up with the best idea you can and you will have a 1 in 12 chance in being right."
You also know this as Sturgeon's Law (unless you're too young):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
Of course I know Sturgeon's law.
My buddy Sean has a related comment that he uses with young creatives -- "If you can come up with one good idea, you can come up with 10." To which I quipped, and if you can't come up with 10, your one idea isn't a good one."