One Apple A Day #964 - Epiphany Ability
Epiphany is a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization. Like when you are working on something, and you can't find the way forward. Then, all of a sudden, the answer is there before you, as if it has always been there.
Because of its fleeting nature, it is easy to believe that epiphanies just happens randomly—a gift from a blind, fickle and flirtatious muse.
So, there is nothing you can really do. Some people are just lucky. Aren't they?
Unfortunately, this is just a limiting belief stopping you from expressing your creative potential.
As Benjamin Hardy writes, "action precedes inspiration".
You can train yourselves to get inspired, to develop what is called Epiphany Ability, the ability to get out of the cage of mental fixation and tune into the creative abundance of the universe.
To do so, you need to do the relentless work of experimenting and playing with your creativity.
Through the sustainable daily practice of creativity, you will awake your natural ability to experience epiphanies.
This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
Steven Pressfield
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