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your work.
And yourself.
Way Walker's personal creativity notes about art, fear, taste, purpose, attention, and the hidden forces that shape what we make.
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Everything everywhere is extraordinary.
Creativity begins with seeing. Way Walker explores four ways artists can deepen perception: seeing their own lens, the larger context, small details, and the whole.
Yesterday’s hands. Today’s eyes.
Old work did not fail you; it built the eyes you use to judge it. Every creation makes both the work and the creator.
What does water taste like?
Creative taste is not preference. It is attention practiced until it becomes the instinct to notice what everyone else overlooks.
Red light. Green light.
The understanding only comes through failing inside the process.
It comes with time.
How do you know when to lean in vs when to pull away? How do you know when a mistake is actually a gift?
The art of not knowing.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." - Shunryu Suzuki.
The Ultimate Creativity Book List
The best creativity books for any type of artist.
Where creative geniuses hangout.
History has shown that creative geniuses usually hangout in the same cities at the same time.
Can creativity be earned?
Creativity doesn’t come from waiting for inspiration. It comes from movement. Repetition. Iteration.
Go deep.
Wrestle with the complexities and the things you don't understand.
Have you heard of this word before?
The word you probably never heard of yet it's found all around you.
Send this to every high school graduate.
This speech was so encouraging, that I believe it transcends the advice for a college student and can touch the lives of anyone who hears it.
The experimentation game.
Experimentation has played a pivotal role in human progress throughout history, enabling both individual and collective improvement.
A message from the birthday boy.
20 pieces of advice I learned over the last decade.
Steal the way Creative Geniuses think.
You can hack your way to being “smart’ by stealing the way smart people think.
Secret to winning a Nobel Prize.
Here’s a secret the world’s best scientists used to win a Nobel prize…and it has nothing to do with science.
The Genius Behind Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa is legendary because Leonardo da Vinci combined his mastery of art and scientific genius to pioneer groundbreaking techniques to paint the earliest painting that comes as close to a photograph as possible—182 years before the camera was invented.
School Isn't For Education
You've been programmed to think that school is for education.