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There Is No Right Way to Do This
How to Decide What to Do with Your Creativity
Two Starting Points to Discover Your Creative Inspiration: Collect and Remix
When it comes to creativity, some incredibly successful artists will give you the very honest secret to success:
“Just start.”
This type of quote is honest because that’s how they got to where they are today — it did all start with one piece of work. (And then another, and another!)
However, a quote like “Just start,” may also leave you with a bajillion other questions.
One of those next questions, when you want to start, is probably something like:
“What do I actually want to do?”
If you have no idea what you want to do, you can start by collecting references. For example, you could make a list of your favorite 10 pieces of work — perhaps in one format (e.g., “10 favorite blog posts under 1,000 words,” or “5 reports that I liked” or “3 things that made me feel happy”).
