{"id":4504,"date":"2012-11-20T18:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2012-11-20T18:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T18:36:26","slug":"we-dont-generate-creativity-by-sheer-force-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=4504","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We don\u2019t generate creativity by sheer force. We experience it by stepping back. The reason you feel creative when you start a new job, is because the problem set is new \u2013 and so the job behaves like a side project in those first few months. The same is true of stepping into someone else\u2019s writing \u2013 you perceive the writer\u2019s grind from a distance, allowing your insight to flow freely and easily \u2013 sometimes producing an \u201cof course!\u201d reaction (in the writer) typical of someone who was trying, with all their will, to uncover that same insight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rocketr.com\/creativity-the-grind-and-why-we-need-side-projects\/\">Creativity, &#8220;The Grind&#8221; and Why We Need Side Projects | Rocketr<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don\u2019t generate creativity by sheer force. We experience it by stepping back. The reason you feel creative when you start a new job, is because the problem set is new \u2013 and so the job behaves like a side project in those first few months. The same is true of stepping into someone else\u2019s <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=4504\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}