Video: Merlin's Talk, "Toward Patterns for Creativity"
Whenever I watch this guy I realize that everyone seems to be struggling about the same thing, life. I always enjoy the way he speaks. Very straight forward and frank about everything, especially how he feels about them. Here is a video of him speaking about Design Patterns. This is a subject that I am very very interested in right now so I was quite happy to find this talk. Many things he said hit my nerves because I felt that I was thinking many similar things.
Here are some notes I made while watching this video
Design pattern, recurring problem solving
Twyla Tharp’s book - The creative habit
Stephen King’s book - On writing
time you set aside each day (I’m trying to make this a habit these days)
process of making things
having ideas is the least of your problems
making something awesome is hardpeople who want to make the leap
learning how to work your ass off - jacky chan school (I need this)
Uber patterns
- you gotta want it enough to sacrifice
- sit down and work, try
- soft/hard absorbe, then edit
Merlin Mann - “Toward Patterns for Creativity” - Macworld PULSE
Here’s a video of my presentation, “Toward Patterns for Creativity,” from earlier this month at Macworld, here in SF.
As I said, I’m very interested in seeing where a topic like this could go. Because I truly believe it’s an idea that could help push a lot of people to the next level.
Related: if you’re interested in where my head was as I prepped for this, be sure and catch the previous post, The Problem with “Feeling Creative”.
Also, if you haven’t done so already, do yourself a favor, and pick up the book I highlight in this talk: The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharpe.
