Film cameras taught people to wait a week to see the photo. Some of the best stuff shows up after the moment.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

A delay between doing something and seeing the result changes how you relate to both. When feedback is instant you start shaping the thing for the feedback, and when it is slow you have to be present for the actual moment instead. Some of what you value later was invisible at the time and only surfaces once the immediate reaction has faded.

Try doing something this week with no immediate check on how it came out. Look at it days later, with the urgency gone. What you notice then tends to be closer to the truth.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which thing you made looked better once you set it down?

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