You can not control your sub-conscious, the one part that glues together the creative part of your work. You can feed it, you can walk it and you can hope that

You can not control your sub-conscious, the one part that glues together the creative part of your work. You can feed it, you can walk it and you can hope that the digestion pours out something useful. This might look like slacking off to some ignorant person, in violent denial regarding creative work. Because, if break-troughs are not gained by mechanically grinding away for hours on logic riddles, till you level up to genius- it might be the "work hard, not smart" that's actually lacking off. One can treat this like a sport, can threat this like a craft. But then you still will never be a da Vinci, or a van Gogh - elevating a whole field by digressing and recombining . Just another speed-painter hoping that his great day shall come after the 1000x tourist portrait.