How Slowing Inspiration Down Made Me More Creative

Herbert Lui
4 min readApr 18, 2022
Photo: Sven Mieke/ Unsplash

Receiving a new idea is an incredible experience — to me, the sensation is a whirlwind of hope, opportunity, and excitement.

This is a double-edged sword though, because all of us take in new ideas every day, which means if we were to act on all of them, we would perpetually be stuck in the middle of each one.

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Herbert Lui

Covering the psychology of creative work for content creators, professionals, hobbyists, and independents. Author of Creative Doing: https://www.holloway.com/cd