There is an initial phase, where a creative person is just starting out. In this phase ideas are rare and sometimes seem precious. I don’t quite understand wha

There is an initial phase, where a creative person is just starting out. In this phase ideas are rare and sometimes seem precious. I don’t quite understand what happens but after a while this phase passes. I think one of the core factors might be just doing stuff out of curiosity, playing, implementing things that are your own, fueled by curiosity. Then, day after day you get showered in ideas. Good ones, crazy ones, boring ones. All kinds of solutions or new ways of doing things come to mind. Today I find it much more challenging to filter and evaluate ideas than to get them. Some important virtues that help in both cases: patience, practice, playfulness. Also respect of other people’s work.