David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
is a series of short one to a few page compact life lessons and remembrances about the topics of meditation, consciousness, and creativity. I heard him interviewed on NPR and found his ideas to be helpful.In order to be creative you have to understand suffering but it is not necessary to live it. Pain and suffering will reduce the ability to be creative. Sleep, meditation and self care is necessary for optimal creativity.
David is a big proponent of transcendental meditation. He needs to do it as part of his daily practice. It is the source of his ideas and ability to be creative.
If you have a desire to be creative and to accomplish project you need to have time. Try to find a job that provides food, enough time for sleep, and time to work on your creative projects.
Ideas do not come to us fully formed. We desire and search for an idea and we may only get a fragment. If we write down this idea we can use it as bait or a starting point for additional ideas that can build on the initial fragment. Eventually there is an actionable creative piece that will arise.
David Lynch - Suffering - 3 minutes
Where do ideas come from - 2 min.
Find time to do what you love - 1 min.
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