What Highly Creative People Have in Common…Nurturing Creativity

One of the most popular posts that I tweeted last week was this one: http://zenhabits.net/creative-habit/ on Leo Babauta's excellent Zen Habits blog.

His post, summing, up was on the number one habit of highly creative people. It was solitude.

He'd polled some creatives from a variety of different fields for the answer, but he'd also pulled examples from the past, like:

Picasso: "Without great solitude no serious work is possible."
Sandburg: "One of the greatest necessities in...