My endurance is horrible.
I don’t mean physically, although that could stand to use a lot of work, I am talking about my creative endurance. I sued to believe that your creative juices were like a well, use too much and then you would be out of it. After you rested, the well would fill back up, and you can them you can go back to the well.
What I have come to realize is, thanks to a recent Ryan Holiday post, is that creativity is more like a muscle. Each time I spend myself by writing something, playing something, performing something – I get more out of myself for next time.
Every day I write on this blog it is no more than a creative gym visit. Each post is a rep. Going to the gym is great, and it helps you create the body that you want, but if you want to maximize your activity, you have to go out and do in the world.
In order to try that, I have instructed myself to comment on every single blog post I read. Hopefully this forces me to do two things.
1) Concentrate on the articles in front of me, make a concise point, along with my point of view, to leave a lasting impression
2) Put my point to the test, defending it when rational, and learning from the experience.
Each time I do this, I feel like it would be like going to the gym to play hoop, also working on my endurance, but putting the stuff I do in the gym to the test in a (hopefully) fun way.
This is my new experiment, and I am curious to see what the results will be.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 