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When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives? By examining the careers not only of greatā¦
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How do creative people produce their best work? Thatās the question Galenson researched as an economics professor leading to this book comparing the two major creative approaches heās identified: Do they create by just getting started and through incremental efforts and continuous testing they feel their way until they discover what they will create? Or do they begin with careful and comprehensive plans of what they will create, beginning only when they are confident they have a full vision of what the end looks like? He studied artistsāpainters and poets, novelists and sculptorsābut the questions he asks and the answersā¦
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