There's a line in an interview where he says
“I’d always regarded creativity as you go to sleep at night and you're struck by inspiration.
But maybe it’s a willingness to keep doing something until you've gotten it honed and then being ready for the moment.”
You can spend your whole life following a system and telling yourself negative stories.
“I’m not good enough to do this myself.
My original ideas are probably wrong.”
But if you just keep trying and pushing yourself and making these mistakes, you'll wake up one day and realize that the rules of society that you think you're meant to follow are just made up.
Someone else put them there and it's 100% okay to question them. To break them.
From Kevin Lee
https://twitter.com/kevinleeme/status/1284184707110809600
The thread is a beautiful, inspiring story!
Go read!
“1/ There's a fascinating story of a normal guy named Allen Hemberger who became obsessed with the Alinea cookbook. He spent 5 years re-creating all 107 recipes. There's an extremely valuable lesson in this process for anyone thinking about taking the leap to become a creator.”
Reminds me so much of this Steve Jobs snippet
So, the thing I would say is … When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your … your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money.
But life … That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is …
And the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it.
That’s maybe the most important thing.
It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways.
Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
Jason