{"id":1095,"date":"2007-04-17T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2007-04-17T07:00:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T12:00:43","slug":"the-creativity-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"The Creativity Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

My work recently has brought the following into sharp relief. Whenever I’m working on a challenging project, I follow a very predictable pattern.<\/p>\n

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  1. Enthusiasm: This is going to be my best project ever!<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Unease: Hm. This is getting tough.<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Dismay: This is impossible! It’ll never get it!<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Defeat: What a waste of time. I must destroy this project and erase all traces of it so that my lack of talent is never exposed to the world.<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Grim resolution: I’ve come this far. I might as well finish it, even if it sucks.<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Hope: You know, I’m starting to get it. I might pull this off after all.<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. Elation: I did it!<\/em><\/li>\n
  8. Hubris: That was easy! Next time I’ll do something twice as difficult!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My work recently has brought the following into sharp relief. Whenever I’m working on a challenging project, I follow a very predictable pattern. Enthusiasm: This is going to be my best project ever! Unease: Hm. This is getting tough. Dismay: This is impossible! It’ll never get it! Defeat: What a waste of time. I must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}