Creativity goes hand in hand with hard work

Summary

• Creativity requires hard work to actually produce anything

Details

• Requires ability to maintain focus
• requires ability to be consistent over a long period of time
• Nobel prize winners generally produced significantly more papers over their careers - a reflection of hard work

Reflections

• Best creatives usually have a prodigious output

References

• Peak - Secrets from the New Science of Expertise - Anders Ericsson

Quotes

Furthermore, research on the most successful creative people in various fields, particularly science, finds that creativity goes hand in hand with the ability to work hard and maintain focus over long stretches of time—exactly the ingredients of deliberate practice that produced their expert abilities in the first place. For example, a study of Nobel Prize winners found that they had generally published scientific papers earlier than most of their peers and that they published significantly more papers throughout their careers than others in their discipline. In other words, they worked harder than everyone else.

Related

• Working for long is not the same as working hard
• When working on something, spend time on details that may be unseen in the final work
• Creativity doesnt happen by chance, we need to have a creative process
• Creativity is labor intensive - John Adams