"Artists who are in the early draft stage of a given project tend to adopt a generative attitude about capturing and accepting whatever shows up without judgment or self-editing — having a gentle attitude about imperfection that gives “bad” or “incomplete” ideas the same wide berth as the apparently-great ones. This is not stressful for the gifted artist who knows the dirty little secret that nobody shits a masterpiece … The truth is that creativity is much more about combining the self-discipline to tolerate ambiguity with the will to transform the results into something meaningful."
