Nailed it, per usual, Adam. A line from the Boss comes to mind: "You can't start a fire without a spark...Even if we're just dancin' in the dark." That's creativity in a nutshell; dancing and fumbling around in the dark until flint hits steel just so and fires your tinder.
I wrote about this in a recent piece: "Just as lifting heavier weights or increasing training intensity triggers new muscle growth, confronting demanding study, complex questions, or emotional struggles builds greater mental capability and adaptability. That’s how neurons grow denser, connections stronger, and the mind sharper. You strain, you tear, you rebuild."
AI will be the great divider. It will make the mediocre, mentally and physically lazy people more so. For those who want to do the things that make us human, it will make us better- and stand out from the banal machine lead zombies.
Very well said Adam, and this is why while I am a heavy user of AI tools in the workplace right now, I am refusing to and will never use it for my main creative outlet, which is writing short stories and reviewing books/films I find myself enjoying so much I feel like I must dig deeper. It is the exploration of the mind that, although challenging and sometimes uncomfortable, not only results in better art, but also personal growth at a level that 1000 motivational LinkedIn posts cannot compete with.
It is the process that contains the art and creativity. Trying to race to the product is missing the point. Obtaining something from a prompt can be helpful, at times, but is NOT satisfying. I just installed a new (to me) sink in my kitchen and re-plumbed the pipes. THAT, as inconvenient as it was, was immensely satisfying. And, it tickled a part of my brain that doesn't get used in my job.
Reading what people post on LinkedIn, asking myself - do they even understand what they’re saying? One liner posts about nothing.
Nailed it, per usual, Adam. A line from the Boss comes to mind: "You can't start a fire without a spark...Even if we're just dancin' in the dark." That's creativity in a nutshell; dancing and fumbling around in the dark until flint hits steel just so and fires your tinder.
I wrote about this in a recent piece: "Just as lifting heavier weights or increasing training intensity triggers new muscle growth, confronting demanding study, complex questions, or emotional struggles builds greater mental capability and adaptability. That’s how neurons grow denser, connections stronger, and the mind sharper. You strain, you tear, you rebuild."
Read on: https://www.whitenoise.email/p/training-until-failure-thinking-until
AI will be the great divider. It will make the mediocre, mentally and physically lazy people more so. For those who want to do the things that make us human, it will make us better- and stand out from the banal machine lead zombies.
Very well said Adam, and this is why while I am a heavy user of AI tools in the workplace right now, I am refusing to and will never use it for my main creative outlet, which is writing short stories and reviewing books/films I find myself enjoying so much I feel like I must dig deeper. It is the exploration of the mind that, although challenging and sometimes uncomfortable, not only results in better art, but also personal growth at a level that 1000 motivational LinkedIn posts cannot compete with.
This makes a lot of sense - using them to pay the bills and free up time for human work is very smart
Embrace the suck because it makes you better, deeper, stronger and more interesting;)
It is the process that contains the art and creativity. Trying to race to the product is missing the point. Obtaining something from a prompt can be helpful, at times, but is NOT satisfying. I just installed a new (to me) sink in my kitchen and re-plumbed the pipes. THAT, as inconvenient as it was, was immensely satisfying. And, it tickled a part of my brain that doesn't get used in my job.