The invisible library in your head

Why creativity is not just about coming up with ideas but also trusting the ones you already have

My Kindle has about 1700 books on it and it always weighs exactly the same, whether there’s one book on it or a thousand. The same is true of people and the invisible library of ideas each of us has in our head. From fragments of music, sentences that stuck, half-remembered conversations, to things that moved you for reasons you couldn’t quite explain. This week’s newsletter is about that invisible library, and why creativity is about trusting what’s already there as much as coming up with something new.