Creative Process
By: Vitaliy Katsenelson, Investment Management Associates
Harvest Exchange
November 8, 2017
Creative Process
I am back from CA and from my sabbatical. About the sabbatical. Two thirds of the new book is complete, and this two thirds came from my downloading thoughts that already resided in my subconscious mind. However, the last third of the book explores a topic that is new to me. I’ve been reading a lot on creativity and mindfulness, and I came to realization that when you work on a creative project, if you want to produce highly creative output and learn a lot in the process, it’s good to shift the focus from achieving an outcome to the process itself. Outcome-oriented focus creates tunnel vision that limits creativity. Thus I decided to remove my self-imposed deadline to finish the book in November (well, originally it was October) and will just continue working on it on a daily basis sans deadline.
Originally Published at: Creative Process
