I definitely can attest to this fact, especially in some projects I’ve been working on now. The more I try and hold back on an idea, the less I actually end up executing it. To a degree, it is a positive in that is morphs into a new and better one, but I could have come to it by executing the original idea, instead of letting it fall by the wayside.

I’m convinced that the kernel at the very core of creativity only shows itself when we get out of the way – like just before falling asleep, or after emotional trauma – when our “thought and reason” is not such a brutally controlling force and the incredible ideas are free to dance about. When we’re awake, if we can even remember those ideas, it’s only by way of “translation” through thought – learned reason and language – not the pure brilliance they originally were. I guess what I’m suggesting is that in our effort to execute brilliance we somehow dilute it with intent or targeted goals. That it requires giving 150% to it just to net 75% of its creative potential.

(Wow that came out way more mystical than I really am!)