What Skills and Ideas have in common

What do Skills and Ideas have in common?

When you want a good idea, you can’t strain and magically “have a good idea”. We can’t create good ideas on demand… but we can create environments for good ideas to develop. A daily ritual of creating and consuming, for instance.

When you want new or elevated skills, you can’t strain and magically “be better”. We can’t create skills on demand… but we can create environments for skills to develop. A daily ritual of practice, for instance.

We can’t magic these things up.

But we can design lives that make them appear often, as if by magic.