Ideas and Accountability
Writing regularly started for me as an experiment in design and expression. It slowly evolved into an elaborate hobby that would test my cognitive ability to be resourceful with ideas, and even more importantly, to be accountable for my claims.
Living by a mantra of ideas and accountability forces you to test skills in creating fresh content, with a secondary purpose of holding yourself personally accountable for the things you say. Often when I write, the words are dragged along with necessary measures of justification, explanation and bias. This exercise in creative reasoning is exactly the bridge the links the digital world we live online to the physical lives we expand offline.
And, it only works if you bring your claims both ways.
When The Beatles were recording The White Album after a trip to Rishikesh, India in 1968, tension in the studio forced each musician to work separately with personal engineers in private sound booths. Previously, the synergistic harmony of The Beatles was attributed to their ability to record side by side, using each other as coaches. However, in this session, each artist was left alone offline in their own musical world to experiment with their ideas, with the expectation to be accountable for a final product when the epic was put together.
It was the crossover trust in ideas and accountability that allowed a creative dissonance to be closed that would not subject the final piece of art to disruption. Ultimately, creativity is fueled by the ability to be accountable for what you create across multiple mediums, rather than just being responsbible for the thought of an original idea in one medium.
