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Unadventure as creation

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bobulate:

Eno on unadventure:

“In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person,” Mr. Eno said. “I take the same walk every day and I eat in the same restaurants, and often eat exactly the same things in the same restaurants. I don’t adventure much except when I’m in the studio, and then I only want to adventure. I cannot bear doing something again, or thinking that I’m doing something again.”

As Jacobs once said, “Differentiation emerg[es] from generality. Differentiations become generalities from which further differentiations occur.” My summer has been only about variation — in location, in people, in process — but slowed down creation here. It’s good to be home.

It’s like Flaubert said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Routine is key.

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   Eno on unadventure: In order to be creative and adventurous, you have to be mundane and unadventurous.

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   David Lynch is much the same.

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    Interesting thoughts (via Austin Kleon) on the part routine plays in creativity:

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    Still working on that routine thing, still failing. Not that sad about it, though.

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    It’s like Flaubert said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”...

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