The smallest kitchens often make the best food because nobody has room to waste anything.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Constraint forces attention onto what is actually being used. When there is no space to store extras, every ingredient has to justify itself, and the result is cooking with nothing decorative in it. Abundance has the opposite effect, spreading effort thin across options that never get finished.

Take one area where you have more than you need, whether tools, tabs, projects or clothes, and cut it down to what would fit on a small counter. Work inside that for a week. You may notice how much energy was going to managing surplus rather than making anything.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What have you made well with very little to spare?

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