CREATIVE BIRIYANI
Over-complication is over!
That potpourri of flavours and emotions
Each ingredient adding something, infusing.
Making a composite whole
Making this dish is a laborious affair
A planned project
Many things going in, and have to go right
Mostly controlled by a master chef
Some of us, infected with cook shows
Want only the perfect
In taste, smell, and appearance
So we go the extra mile
When the output isn’t 150%
We burn it, bury it.
Pretend it never existed!
Every work needn’t be a creative Biriyani
We needn’t be master craftsmen
Why complicate then
When we keep it at a single ingredient level
Just one!
Biriyani has taken years to be where it is today
Like a stream turning into a river
Carrying many sediments and colours with it
Only for the final swirl by an expert
To make it to your plate
Creativity
It is a drop
Leading to a trickle
Making a pond that turns into a lake
Flows through like a stream
When many collide, a raging river ensues
Until it is all consumed by the big ocean
Only for the cycle to repeat again
Let’s make biriyani, of course,
But one drop at a time
Simple isn’t it, that one bead of sweat
Coming through the process of our creation
Leading to the next.
Simplify.
Ship it.
Start again.
One drop. One dish. One step.
A grand image of the Mysore Palace. Again, made brick by brick. Inch by Inch!
The Psychology of Shameless Creativity
Choice overload: Kills momentum. Simpler decisions = Faster output.
Satisfying: (good enough) is more productive than perfectionism.
Creative recover: Needs rhythms, not rituals.
A short audio note: There are many peaks!
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SPRINT and REST
I am brilliant! Why can’t you see it?
Permission to Explore
Waiting for the MUSE
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The 7-Second rule of creativity
Constipation, Diahorrea, and Creative Cholesterol
Creative Shame vs Creative EGO
The past doesn’t write the future!
Don’t be scared of original thought.