[HN Gopher] How to find out what you want to do creatively
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How to find out what you want to do creatively
Author : jimhi
Score : 38 points
Date : 2023-03-02 15:11 UTC (1 days ago)
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| corobo wrote:
| Is there a conclusion missing? So what did he end up doing?
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| I can't imagine unfocusing the beam to actually be productive. I
| was doing that for 15 years, it turned out to be ADHD.
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| E: ohhh he's already sold a company before this. Yeah I don't
| have fucking around money, I've still got 20 grand of debt to
| clear before I can even consider having fun creatively. I'm not
| the target market for this post haha.
|
| I have a tub I chuck my idea cards into so that I stop thinking
| about them and get back to work. I used to call it the laterbase
| but later still isn't any closer after a decade. It's more of a
| hopes and dreams graveyard if anything lmao
| jimhi wrote:
| For what it is worth, creative pursuits are awful at making
| money but what makes life worth living. I was in much more debt
| than you are now about a year before I wrote this post.
| corobo wrote:
| Mate I've been in debt my entire working life. 16 years and
| counting. I have once in my life had a bank balance above PS0
| lmao
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| I'm literally just working to pay the banks back at this
| point. Every now and then some big expense comes up and
| resets the counter. If I had no debts I could work less than
| 30 hours a month and have the same life.
|
| It turned out to be ADHD but as a recent discovery I've not
| quite worked around my defective-ass brain yet. I have since
| got my freelance rate up to PS30/h from a full time income of
| like.. PS12/h but it's never going to be enough to move the
| needle haha
|
| Sorry to dump, just a little stuck tbh. I'd kill for just the
| one year lol
| steezeburger wrote:
| I think it's more about finding the patterns in your interests
| to show you what you're truly interested in and to spark ideas
| for creation. I agree the author never really lands the plane.
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| Also, I don't have fucking around money either. I work a full
| time job, but I still try to create a few things for myself on
| the side. I realize not everyone has the time, because life or
| family or whatever, but people make time for what they want to
| prioritize.
| [deleted]
| corobo wrote:
| If you're in a full time job doesn't that mean your side
| things aren't working either? That's basically what I mean by
| no fucking around money, your best time has to be spent
| elsewhere.
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| I don't want to make little one-off tools, I already do that
| lol, these idea cards are businesses. With target markets and
| revenue streams and everything. Once I've got shot of the
| debt I'll give them a proper go.
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| Shame ideas aren't worth the card they're written on else I'd
| already have the money to have the time to actually work on
| them haha
| tambourine_man wrote:
| So, write your daydreams and what? I think it's missing a
| conclusion.
| jimhi wrote:
| Oh whoops, I wrote a follow up here -
| https://mrsteinberg.com/the-10-steps-of-originality/
| Enginerrrd wrote:
| And review them periodically to spot patterns? That's the best
| I could come up with. That is still a useful tip though.
| LegitShady wrote:
| Then make blog posts and put them on hn.
| imoverclocked wrote:
| Also, make sure you write "(c) Company-You-Work-For-And-Signed-
| IP-Agreement-With" on all of your journal entries.
| Shaggy2000 wrote:
| :-)
| cypherpunks01 wrote:
| This reminds me of Rick Rubin's new debut book, The Creative Act:
| A Way of Being, that came out recently.
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| It contains a lot of musings on different ways to cultivate
| creativity, among many other related topics. He discusses ideas
| to avoid pruning creative branches too early, in the same way
| this post does. It's an important point, avoiding filtering out
| potential ideas too soon is essential to the creative process.
| adnmcq999 wrote:
| How to not do anything well
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