Create first, consume second #Habits

8 Jun 2020 · 1 min

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Short motivational talk by TJ Walker advising creators to 'create first, then consume', especially immediately upon waking. He recommends using early-morning quiet (e.g., 5am) to write—poetry, blog posts, novel paragraphs—before checking news, email, or social media, to preserve original thinking and productivity.

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There's an old adage among creative types, and it goes like create first, then consume. This is first thing in the morning, and it is fantastic advice. I struggled with this for years because my natural inclination is to say, let me just check the news headlines, make sure the world hasn't gone crazy. The problem is, once you start consuming other people's ideas, other stories, other social media, then your brain is focused on their creations. As soon as you wake up, that's the per perfect time to have your own creations come out of your brain. Whether you're writing a line of poetry, a blog post, a paragraph of your novel, Create something. That's what I do Every morning at 5am today I was writing my 500 words on habits. There's no distractions yet, no emails, no calls. It's the perfect time. So create first, then consume.