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   Jason Evangelho (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 09:59:11 JST Jason Evangelho

   Inspiration is a myth. I don't believe in it anymore.

   Don't get trapped by it. Don't feel guilty about not being productive while you sit and wait for it to strike.

   Know what inspiration is? It's allowing yourself the time to dedicate to creating. It's sitting down with the mindset of working on your art, your music, your writing, your cooking, your whatever.

   Allow yourself the time, put yourself in the moment, and go make something!

   #Art #Creativity #Inspiration

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     Jason Evangelho (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 10:46:17 JST Jason Evangelho

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     • Lorenzo Miniero

     @lminiero I love how you describe this. Rick Rubin would call it…basically being receptive to “the source” and then putting in the work to translate the signal to some tangible creative work.

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     Lorenzo Miniero (lminiero@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 10:46:18 JST Lorenzo Miniero

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     @killyourfm I've always seen inspiration as something akin to tuning to a radio: when inspiration strikes me, it's indeed like I ended up by accident on some psychic radio waves where I can hear clearly something that didn't exist in my mind before, so something I just have to remember and write down. I don't know if I'll ever figure out if the music I've composed actually came from me, or from some collective subconscious thingie somewhere

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     Jason Evangelho (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 01:21:12 JST Jason Evangelho

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     • Dušan Mitrović

     @dusnm I can definitely respect this.  What I probably should have articulated better is that I don’t want to wait on inspiration in order to create things.

      it would be extreme for me to say that inspiration doesn’t exist for all people

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     Dušan Mitrović (dusnm@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 01:21:14 JST Dušan Mitrović

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     @killyourfm I'm at my best when I'm inspired. It doesn't come naturally to just sit down and write a story or a poem.

     Creativity has to be based on and invoked by something. I usually find inspiration in the people, events and places around me.

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     Jason Evangelho (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 01:22:56 JST Jason Evangelho

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     • Liam

     @ThePlant yes, there you go. That is an absolutely perfect addendum to my post.

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     Liam (theplant@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 01:22:57 JST Liam

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     @killyourfm it’s the same thing with Motivation. It’s not something that often just strikes, you have to be your own motivator.