Psst. Want to know how creative geniuses come up with their great ideas and masterpieces? The answer isn’t luck.
James Clear notes that luck has a way of finding people who force themselves to create constantly [emphasis mine]:
We often think that blockbuster successes are luck. Maybe it’s easier to explain success that way — as a chance happening, a fortunate outlier. No doubt, there is always some element of luck involved in every success story.
But Markus Zusak [author of The Book Thief] is proof that if you revise your work 200 times — if you find 200 ways to reinvent yourself, to get better at your craft — then luck seems to have a way of finding you.
How do creative geniuses come ups with great ideas? They work and edit and rewrite and retry and pull out their genius through sheer force of will and perseverance. They earn the chance to be lucky because they keep showing up.
Geniuses are made, not born, so just stick to the schedule.
How Creative Geniuses Come Up with Great Ideas [James Clear via 99U]
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