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You’ve got to evaluate where the market is today. What are people disregarding? What are they believing?

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Not being able to produce creative thoughts doesn’t weigh on your ability to produce good work.

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While not all of these stories are ostensibly about the creative process, they nevertheless contain an important insight, anticipated by the ancients and borne out by the private lives of creative artists since the Renaissance: reaching for the sun is dangerous business.