Mental
What if ideas are already out there, waiting?
David Lynch compared the creative process to fishing. You don't build the fish. You sit by the water, drop your line, and wait. The idea was already swimming down there. Your job is to be ready when it bites.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you have to go deeper.— David Lynch
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The thinker
Filmmaker & Meditation Advocate
David Lynch was an acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and longtime practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, known for Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and his book Catching the Big Fish.
Based on David Lynch — Consciousness, Creativity, and the Brain, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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