The Paradox of abundance
The paradox of abundance happens when you’re paralyzed with having several choices.
Restrictions can put your creativity into working mode.
For example:
Offline mode speeds up your thought processes and it will limit your access, which is great when you’re writing content that matters to you.
It forces you to write drafts without minding for misspells, grammatical errors, or sentence structure.
Online mode gives you access to abundance, and it also gives you distractions along the way.
When I read Austin Kleon’s book “Steal Like An Artist”, I noticed that when we work while facing a computer, we’re perfectionists.
“The computer is really good for editing your ideas, and it’s really good for getting your ideas ready for publishing out into the world, but it’s not really good for generating ideas. There are too many opportunities to hit the delete key.”
Offline mode brings us new ideas.
Austin Kleon shared a wonderful tip on how we can generate new ideas to our work:
Have an analog station and a digital station.
Analog station is where you can generate rich ideas.
Digital station is where you publish these ideas.
Creativity starts when you generate ideas.