dailies manifesto
You should write everyday. Not you, I’m talking to me. Me, the reader, me the writer.
Rick Rubin taught us Creativity is an action & way of being. It begs to be utilized, sharpened, displayed, and lived out.
Seth Godin taught us Creativity is intertwined with Generosity & capable of transforming others. It’s for someone, not everyone.
What is the path to creativity? Here’s Seth:
If you want to learn how to juggle, you have to drop an enormous number of balls. If you want to learn how to swim, you have to sort of drown. And if you want to learn to be creative, you have to show me an enormous number of bad ideas…
This “enormous number of bad ideas” (that produce a couple good ones) will lead to a place where you’re quite sure you have something to say to someone. Not everyone, because we can’t change the whole of the fractalized world. And not some thing ambiguous and jumbled, because being a meaningful specific beats being a wandering generality every time.
This is domain expertise, calling, the pieces of a grand contribution. On the journey of creativity, hoard signs that point to this…
The journey matters as much as this final creative act. Each step is a chance to create something that resonates with someone deeply. Tap into the ache within everyone, and drill down to the life & cares of just one. Find the path and stay on it. Because along the path are all kinds of signs that point to ways of being in the world that radically transform life itself.
Goal of the Dailies- To become creative by generously creating so someone shares your work with a friend to say, “See!?”
Step 1: Show me your bad ideas (“Let's prove that your bad ideas are not fatal...”)
Step 2: Find your domain expertise (“This means you know what your audience wants 10 minutes before they do…”)
Note: I got rid of photos on the blog because those were a way of hiding. I started sharing the date of each post because not sharing it was a way of hiding. Make small moves to put yourself on the hook to begin to share more of yourself.
