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Creativity and Structure

Creativity and structure are often considered to be different.When you structure your creativity, you develop a habit of continuously practicing your creative pursuits.

Creativity and structure are often considered to be different.
When you structure your creativity, you develop a habit of continuously practicing your creative pursuits. For example, if a writer wants to write but waits around for inspiration to strike, it can actually turn into a form of procrastination. The assumption is that getting in the flow to write good-quality content only happens after an external stimulus.

Rather than waiting passively, approach the problem proactively. If you decide to write every day for an hour—no matter how it turns out—you’ll have a better chance of actually doing it. With continuous practice, you’ll end up getting better at it. More often than not, starting to write or paint is not only difficult but suboptimal in terms of quality. It might take 15 minutes or so to get into the zone, but it works like priming, setting you up for 45 minutes of productive, high-quality work.

A habit and a structure will make you more efficient and polished at any creative art. Your mind and body will eventually attune themselves to make way for your pursuit. Our minds are highly flexible. They want to work for us.

Writing is more about content than articulation. It’s not just about language, although being good at articulation and communicating clearly is a very useful skill. Writing is about sharing your ideas and perspectives. It’s about expression. The essence of what you share matters more than the specific wording.