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Shaan Puri

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Jan 04 3 ways to hijack the creative part of your brain: 1. Morning Mud we mistakenly think greatness is clean. Like you're supposed to wake up, meditate, cold plunge, sip green tea -- and then produce brilliant work. Nope. You gotta work like a pig. Wake up, and roll in the mud. Seinfeld spent the first 2 hours of his day writing jokes. Why? because if you want great jokes, you gotta write a lot of bad jokes. He did that everyday, for 40+ years. Less than 0.1% of those jokes ever made it into his standup set. Quantity is the mother of quality. b..bu..buut what about writer's block? "there's no writers block" he said. "there IS scared. there IS lazy. But there's no writers block." You can cure writers block like it's a simple case of the hiccups: "just sit down and accept your mediocrity" Translation: the harder you try to be great, the more you paralyze your creativity. Instead, be willing to roll in the mud. Make bad stuff, everyday. Ed Sheeran: "I don't try to be great. When I walk in the studio, I remind myself 'today, I must dare to suck'...you can never make a great song, if you're afraid to make a bad song" The first 2 hours of the day. Sit down and create. Before you check the news, twitter, and stock market. BEFORE YOU PUT ANYTHING IN YOUR BRAIN... make something. Coders code. Writers write. Musicians play music. It's not going to be good. It's not SUPPOSED to be good. Good comes later. You will only be as great as you're willing to be bad. 2. Engineered Rest If you're reading this - you work too much, and it's suffocating your creativity. All great work is on the other side of a breakthru idea. How do you get a breakthrough? 3 places: 1) in water 2) in motion 3) after a nap Ever notice you get your best ideas in the shower? That's because your brain shifts from Executive Mode (doing tasks) to Default Mode (connecting dots) "Creativity is just connecting things" - Steve Jobs Aaron Sorkin (writer of west wing, social network) showers 8x a day when writing scripts. Einstein used to float on a boat without a motor at sea. The coast guard was worried he'd drift away. He said "good, more time to think" Darwin used to go for long walks in nature. He'd kick a stone every lap. He started calling his problems "4 stone problems" and "5 stone problems" JK Rowling came up with Harry Potter on a train. Edison, Einstein, Salvador Dali all took very short naps, and woke themselves up (holding a key, or metal ball that would drop and clang when they fell asleep) - because the brain enters a hypogogic state which allows for creative connections. Showers, Naps, Swimming, Walking -- these look lazy. What's more important to you: Looking productive or being productive? Just like athletes and bodybuilders use sleep to grow their muscles - you must give yourself permission to relax. Clock out so your subconscious mind can clock in. 3. THINK INSIDE THE BOX Creativity loves constraints. Dr. Suess was an up and coming writer. His editor bet him $100 he couldn't write a book using less than 50 words. "it was damn tough. but that's what made it fun. It gave it that bounce" The book (Green Eggs and Ham) went on to be his all-time best selling book. The lie we're told is that you need to "think outside the box" If you study the great ones, you see they do the opposite. They put themselves INTO a tight box. Fewer options. Tight deadlines. Less features. ^these are the tools of the master creators that's just a taste, reply DM if you want me to DM you the full list 146 8 43 12.9k 3.6k .
Jun 24 this guy decided he wants to do 100 pushups in a row this year. He randomly DM's me each week's stats. honestly, one of the better DMs I get. I appreciate a man who sets an arbitrary goal for himself, and then chops wood every week to make progress. 🫡 https://t.co/ng7hCUZcy1 310 6 30 29.3k 281 .
Sep 08 I've never had a big success in any project where I start off by thinking of "plan B's" My plan A is the plan. If Plan A fails. Then I will think of a new Plan A. 539 23 68 35.9k 165 .
May 17 RT @ShaanVP: Whenever I hear someone wants "life balance", I know they will end up dissapointed. Not only is life balance nearly impossib… 0 139 0 0 140 .
May 16 New essay : The Life Balance Lie 102 4 14 37.4k 32 .