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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Blogging Motivation from John Maeda The Master of Simplicity
It has been a while since my last post. I was distracted by a project for
Market and Main
But while searching I found some motivation for the creative thinking types.
It's from John Maeda The Master of Simplicity
Here is the quote from: The Gift
"The power of creativity amazes me. My once mentor Tadashi Sasaki told me while I was just starting out, "You have the gift." I was surprised, "The gift?" Sasaki said, "Yes, the gift of creativity. Did you know it is also a curse?" I wasn't sure what he meant until many years later. What Sasaki meant, I think, is that it is a real gift to think of all kinds of things you can possibly do. Unfortunately, it can be a curse because it prevents you from ever doing anything at all. You can get started on something, and then immediately derailed because you start to see something completely new elsewhere. And then when you branch off to that, you get off on another tangent. If you are not careful, all you leave is a massive trail of unfinished work with nothing to show for. So the gift of ideas, is the curse of doing nothing."
Creativity is not the same as Creating!
TH!nk and DO! TH!nk and DO!
Market and Main
But while searching I found some motivation for the creative thinking types.
It's from John Maeda The Master of Simplicity
Here is the quote from: The Gift
"The power of creativity amazes me. My once mentor Tadashi Sasaki told me while I was just starting out, "You have the gift." I was surprised, "The gift?" Sasaki said, "Yes, the gift of creativity. Did you know it is also a curse?" I wasn't sure what he meant until many years later. What Sasaki meant, I think, is that it is a real gift to think of all kinds of things you can possibly do. Unfortunately, it can be a curse because it prevents you from ever doing anything at all. You can get started on something, and then immediately derailed because you start to see something completely new elsewhere. And then when you branch off to that, you get off on another tangent. If you are not careful, all you leave is a massive trail of unfinished work with nothing to show for. So the gift of ideas, is the curse of doing nothing."
Creativity is not the same as Creating!
TH!nk and DO! TH!nk and DO!
