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Expectations

Sun, Feb 11, 2007 by Todd Henry

Creative Process

paper plane

In the creative process, one of the silent killers is expectations.

It’s very important that we have a healthy understanding of our abilities and developmental opportunities, but for some of us, myself included, our expectations of ourselves and our work is our greatest competitor to full, free creativity.

In his work “On Intelligence”, Jeff Hawkins writes of a phenomenon in the mind called the “invariant representation”. This is a mental construct that represents the ultimate form of whatever subject we are considering.

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