The Dance of the Possible Quotes

“An epiphany is a powerful experience, but the myth of epiphany is that it alone is all you need.”
― Scott Berkun, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity

“creativity is rarely efficient. It always involves taking chances and trying things that might work but might not. The question then is: are we willing to spend time to be interesting, to think interesting thoughts and make interesting things? We all have the power, but perhaps not the willingness.”
― Scott Berkun, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity

“Yes, Ray Bradbury did write 25,000 words of Fahrenheit 451 in just a few days. But what’s often not told about that amazing burst of productivity is that he later revised the book several times over the course of a year, expanding its length and heavily editing it, before it reached its final published form. In every legendary story of bursts of creativity there is a dance somewhere if you look carefully.”
― Scott Berkun, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity

“All projects are a dance between two forces, expanding to consider more ideas and shrinking to narrow things down enough to finish.”
― Scott Berkun, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity

“If you forced me to give you a step-by-step method for creativity, I’d point you to the one defined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.23 You probably won’t like it, but that’s what happens when you force people to give you things. He defines it in five steps: 1.   Preparation: Study a subject, identify ideas, become immersed in the topic or subject that aroused your curiosity. 2.   Incubation: Ideas churn around below the threshold of consciousness. 3. Insight: Your subconscious mind makes connections. 4.   Evaluation: Decide which, if any, of the insights are worth pursuing. 5.   Elaboration: Develop the ideas into the final work.”
― Scott Berkun, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity

“Artists are often victims in a way of their own perceived quality gaps. They struggle to match the ideas in their minds to what they can manifest in the world.”
― Scott Berkun, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity

“You need to have strong faith in the next draft, that you will be a little smarter and wiser by the time this draft is finished and your only responsibility is to get there. In a way, the draft you write now is a gift to the future version of you.”
― Scott Berkun, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity