I'm going to do the same thing I did last year and stop reading blogs for Lent. It will be good for me, and I'm sure my audience will survive. Check back in about 40 days.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. It's not about talent, it's about hard work:

Epiphany has little to do with either creativity or innovation. Instead, innovation is a slow process of accretion, building small insight upon interesting fact upon tried-and-true process.

Lots of creative people report going to bed thinking about something and waking up with an insight. I make a point of not thinking about stuff for an hour or so before bed. I'm sure this decreases my stress and improves my quality of life, but does it make me less creative?