Creative Thinking Rod Judkins Dr Seuss

πŸ’Ž On how constraints can inspire (rather than hinder creativity)

Dr Seuss’s editors bet him he couldn’t write a book with a limit of only fifty different words. Dr Seuss won the bet and in the process produced one of the highest-selling children’s books of all time Green Eggs and Ham. Van Gogh used a maximum of six colours when waiting. Picasso focused on one colour during his Blue Period. They imposed these limitations on themselves. They needed a framework, but it was their framework, one that suited them.

Excerpt from:Β The Art of Creative Thinking by Rod Judkins

HT: @rshotton

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