Joe Rohde says creators get stuck choosing between infinite options. His fix: make a decision first, then spend your energy making it right. He describes a cycle of marking the canvas, observing what happens, planning based on that, executing, and reassessing.
I think it's interesting that people feel paralyzed by choices. You can agonize about making the right decision, but if you're creative, the real truth is you are going to make the decision right. So make the decision, then make it right. And this has to do again with the emergent quality of creative things. You just take the canvas, Put a line on it. Now that that line is on the canvas, what does that make you want to do? People who study design development, creative design development, will tell you that the way design emerges is you start it, see what it looks like it might be, and then you begin to develop a plan based on what it looks like it might be, and then start to execute, and then see what it is. And make another plan. It relieves you of the paralysis of like, oh, but what about this? What about this? You just pick one, pick one, and make that work.
