Tag: James Clear

Friday Five: James Clear on the creative process

Atomic Habits author James Clear shares his five-step approach to the creative process in a recent edition of his 3-2-1 newsletter.

The creative process

  1. Discover – Read a lot. Observe the world. Notice.
  2. Collect – Immediately record anything that strikes you.
  3. Generate – Build on your notes to brainstorm lots of ideas.
  4. Combine – Connect previously unconnected ideas.
  5. Refine – Edit, edit, edit. Select the best.
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Friday Five: thoughts on creativity and the craft

Happy August. (Eek!) So many writers produced great ideas about creativity and the craft in July — the stuff just grew like the cornfields and grapevines here in the bee-you-tiful Missouri Ozarks. Here are five reads that inspired me during that summerest of months.

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