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Creative work splits into routine work you should get fast at and high-variance work you must be willing to spend a long time on, and almost everyone is good at only one of the two.

Drawn from what Michael Nielsen said

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ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.

creativity Making something new: where ideas come from, what conditions let them come, and whether a machine can have them.

Where does creativity come from?under our view: It comes from turning up and doing the work often, not from inspiration

What Michael Nielsen actually said

  1. Michael Nielsen Physicist, writer and researcher
    there's sort of there's two types of work that tends to be involved in any kind of creative project. There's routine stuff and there you just want to avoid procrastination. You just want to like, you know, how do I get good at this or how do I outsource it and how do I do it as rapidly as possible? Um and just avoid you know, like getting into a situation where you're prolonging it. Um, and then there's high variance stuff where you actually you need to be willing to to you know take a lot of time.

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