You think you're choosing between two flawed creative options. You're not. You're choosing which conditions you're willing to accept. The decision itself? You made that before you consciously realized it. This changes everything about how creative decisions actually work. The Self-Protection Trap
You know that voice. The quiet one that whispers "not just yet" every time you sit down to create something new. It sounds reasonable. Practical, even. Something needs to be adjusted first. You need more skills, better conditions, clearer vision. The voice presents itself as wisdom, but it&
Nobody taught me creativity in architecture school. They taught me to act in the face of uncertainty. I was given a brief. Nothing more than a loose statement of what the architecture had to be. You started by drawing. The technique of making a gesture, however humble or inadequate, was
"Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
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