A talk on creative work and avoiding burnout through the cycle of gathering information, creating, and letting ideas percolate. The speaker emphasizes that reflection time between these stages is essential to sustainable creative output.
There's a step in between that most of us miss. And this is the step that allows us to age and feel like it is something that we're really bringing to the world. Which instead of just feeling like you're on the grind of saturate, create, saturate, create. Because what do we do after we create? We just go back to the next thing. Saturate, next thing, create, saturate, create. That's the burnout loop. Whereas this step in between I call percolate. So we saturate, but before we jump into create, we allow space to just put it on the back burner. We've got all these phrases, let me sleep on it, let me put it on the back burner. A friend of mine says I'm going to put that in my mental crock pot, you know, and coffee. You think about it percolating through the filters. And what happens when we percolate is we make these abstract connections.