According to The Writer's Almanac, John Updike gave this account of his creativity—

No amount of learned skills can substitute for the feeling of having a lot to say, of bringing news. Memories, impressions, and emotions from your first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant. By the age of 40, you have probably mined the purest veins of this precious lode; after that, continued creativity is a matter of sifting the leavings.

Seems like a pretty good description of aging, too.

Instead of pushing ads, this app pushes poetry http://t.co/yZxImvqdBG pic.twitter.com/MNHtgPtsqy

— Co.Exist (@FastCoExist) September 21, 2013

<How great> You Can Only See This Amazing Invisible Graffiti When It Rains - Jenny Xie - The Atlantic Cities http://t.co/hoqtu4Chop

— Jeffrey Cufaude (@jcufaude) September 21, 2013

Some stuff is too good not to pass on.

I treasure this TED talk by Steven Johnson not just for the image of London's oldest coffee house but also for the explanation of the central role of the coffee house in the creative process and the fascinating story of how the coffee house gave us GPS via Sputnik and nuclear submarines. Not only did this talk call up images of James Burke and Connections, it managed to explain much more clearly than the New York Times why I like Coffitivity so much.

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Well said! RT @meneed: "Creativity is not an elective. It's our future." (via @adobe at @mica_news) flip.it/aAyu9

— Gautam Gulati (@drgautamgulati) April 27, 2013

Einstein asked himself wild and improbable questions, and posed impossible situations, to get his creative juices going - try it yourself!Tue Jul 27 15:41:07 via webTony Buzan
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