Kwame Busia

Sorry for the lack of post as of late, I’ve been so busy doing all kinds of things sometimes I find I hard to just settle down and write something. Then I figured settling down to write something, even why I haven’t been writing is better than nothing. I’ve got a lot of projects I’m trying to get completed, which can be a lot trickier than I thought it might be. There’s never as much time out there as you think, it goes so fast and seems to go even faster when you’re concentrating on something.

I’ll be back shortly when I have some more focused topics to write about!

Until then…

For some reason, I find it really difficult to come up with any sort of good ideas whilst I am wearing a suit. I mean, I’m really very handsome when I’m in a suit but I can’t come up with any ideas anymore, so I’d rather wear my casual stuff.

Well, I did a bit of research and the finding blew my hair back (what little of it there is). I am most creative when I am wearing my gray limited edition GAP 1969 T-Shirt, loose-fit jeans and Converse All-Stars Chuck Taylors (the low kind, not the boot kind). I found idea generation round about 85% without the Chucks and between a whopping 91 and 93% with them on!

What’s your creativity uniform? Do you wearing certain things makes you more creative?

There’s a reason I don’t trust people who want stuff for free. It’s best not to place alot of faith in people that want stuff for free. These are people who don’t understand how life works, they aways want something for nothing, like they are entitled to it. These people were the kids at school who had three lollipops and will still come after yours. They don’t understand that something doesn’t come from nothing, that if someone else puts their time and energy in, it’s necessary to be thankful for it. No, these people act like you putting your time in for them is what you should have done all along like some kind of doormat or base slave.

How can you sit there and not pay for your fonts and then be critical of the guy who made the free font you have used in all of your low-grade work? Where is your pride?

Quality is better than quantity.

There’s this one blog which I subscribe to, where the posts are really erratic. Sometimes it’s updated three times a week, then you won’t hear from her for a month afterwards.  But it doesn’t bother me, simply because the posts are so good.

On the other hand there are some blogs where every time I log on, there are ten new posts, and that kind of annoys me in a way. It makes me feel like I’m being snowed on, like I can’t keep up with all this information which tends to be kind of diluted anyway.

To that end, I think I really prefer quality over quantity.

Let’s see how this applies to ideas and creativity.

Well, I come up with hundreds of ideas a day, but only a few of them really resonate with me and even fewer resonate with other people too. I prefer to sift through the ideas that kind of have a future and develop them into ‘quality’ ideas.

So maybe if in an hour I have ten ideas, one or maybe two of those are selected to ‘go quality’. It’s about 20 percent for me, which may be high or may be low for you. These things also depend on your ability to develop ideas based on your skill set and organisational skills and situation and support system and things like that.

So what I’m saying is I prefer to present to the world ideas which I feel kind of ‘pack a punch’ – rather than spray lots of weak ideas. This is like a rifle to a machine gun, one fires less regular, but it has more power to it, you can just feel it has a better chance of catching on than say lots of inaccurate bullets that hit or miss, maybe by chance, and even if they hit, it’s mainly by luck and with less impact.

Next time I’ll talk a little bit about what I like to call, ‘letting it bake’.