Don’t Mind the Gap

The Great Wave off Kanagawa by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai

If I were to ask you what the determining factor will be in your success or failure as a creator there’s a good chance you’d say the quality of your ideas.

Without a good idea, you have nothing.

Yet there’s something else even more important still; an awareness without which you are destined to fail, even if inspiration is coursing through you.