[arg_discuss] Topic of the Week Sept. 14: Perspiration or Inspiration?

[Andres M. Quijano]

A guy who used to be #1 in the world tennis ranking said "95%
transpiration, 5% inspiration"

You can be a genious, but you can't be ONLY a genious, even geniuses
have to work!

On the other side, without that 5% you'll have to work veeeery hard

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Andrea Phillips <andrhia at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a question that came up on IRC a few weeks ago. There are a

> few ways that creative work happens. On the one hand, there's the

> Stevie Wonder model, perspiration: You work and work and work (writing

> dozens of songs a fay, and then, by the numbers, some of the work will

> be chart-toppers. Then there's the inspiration model, the apocryphal

> Voltaire writing Candide in three days: You wait until an idea comes

> to you, and then you execute it in one dizzying whirlwind until it's

> done.

>

> So you: Where do you fall? Skew hard one way or the other? Someplace

> in the middle? On one end and wish you were on the other?