![]() ![]() Deep work Deep work, mastery, and creativity are analogous and inseparable The workings of the world are better understood by reading widely, broadly, and deeply covering a wide array of subjects. Self – knowledge is gained through a combination of learning, observing, introspecting, and reflecting on feedback and feedforward. To find one's sweet spot, one has to dwell deeper into oneself and into the world. Similarly, an individual's creative sweet spot is formed where individual abilities and predilections amalgamate and overlap with the collective needs of the world. Finding one's sweet spot The workings of the world are better understood by reading widely, broadly, and deeply covering a wide array of subjectsĪ sweet spot in sports parlance is a point or a technique that yields maximum effect. Regular practice is the magnet that will provide the much-needed direction to this askew talent. ![]() Every healthy individual is bestowed with deep reservoirs of talent that is skewed like a bunch of iron filings. After normalizing the effect of talent, what turns someone into a professional or a performer or an athlete of world-class standing is just practice, which is so underrated. Talent is the least common denominator for gaining access to a league or a working group. Therefore, the quickest way to gain world-class expertise in anything is to practice it for 8 hours a day - 6 days a week – spread over a span of 4 years. This magic number keeps coming up again and again in the study of basketball players, chess players, fiction writers, and pianists. Students who go on to become world-class composers start early on and clock-in 10,000 hours of practice before it becomes their second nature. To drive home his point, Gladwell cites an interesting study conducted in the early 1990s by a group of psychologists on violinists training at the prestigious Academy of Music, Berlin. Malcolm Gladwell, an American journalist, in his book titled " Outliers" questions the undue weightage awarded to innate talent. The 10,000 hours rule The quickest way to gain world-class expertise in anything is to practice it for 8 hours a day - 6 days a week – spread over a span of 4 years His work always focused on creating an adhesive – weak or strong – and only an adhesive. Dr Silver never worked to create a formulation for cleaning surfaces. Although the outcomes are divergent, the fundamental purpose to find an adhesive remained integral to the whole pursuit. Dr Spencer Silver, who invented sticky notes, originally wanted to invent a super-strong adhesive and ended up with an adhesive formulation that has an opposite effect. A case in point is the invention of sticky notes, an office stationery product marketed by 3M under the brand name Post-it. "Eureka" moment arrives by stitching together a series of small "aha" moments accumulated over a period of time keeping the primary objective for the pursuit intact. One fundamental delusion that requires immediate disabuse is the notion of scoring the proverbial goal while continuously shifting the goal post. Unrelenting focus "Eureka" moment arrives by stitching together a series of small "aha" moments This article attempts to examine pathways that can unleash the creative potential in an individual. ![]() They are a result of a creative seeker's single-minded pursuit in the wilderness of knowledge for the right inspiration. Similarly, most creative solutions and products that we touch, feel, and put to use in our day to day lives are not created by rambling from one pursuit to the other. ![]() One can never find oranges in an orchard full of apple trees. However, eureka moments don't just come out of thin air. Every creative pursuit of mankind began as a result of an individual's cognitive leap into an expanse hitherto unknown. Collective creativity is an oxymoron because creativity is the bastion of an individual and is alien to "group think". ![]()
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