202508102235 Submerge yourself in great works
In order to develop and intuition for greatness, whether artistic, creative, technical, philosophical, practical or anything else, you should submerge yourself in great works that correspond to that intuition.1
When starting out, it may be difficult to recognize greatness and we typically have to lean on the judgement of others. Slowly, we build our own intuition and judgement as well as personal style or particular lens for evaluating great works. We also become more discerning and capable of finding themes, threads, and pieces of greatness in many other works.
This built 202408021018 Intuition and instinct are implicit knowledge that we retain and can draw on later to create our own great works ( the height of 202107282144 Bloom's taxonomy of knowledge)
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Rubin, R., & Strauss, N. (2023). The Creative Act: A Way of Being (pp. 49–50). Penguin Press. ↩