Countdown: 5!

We’re at 5 in our countdown to publication of Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy, and today we look at Precept #5: SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION.

This is a very simple Precept: because only people like Mozart or Shakespeare ever get it right the first time, the rest of us have to nudge our work towards perfection.  (Spoiler alert: there is no “perfection.”  We can only nudge it towards ABANDONMENT.)

Baby steps. Incremental improvement. Total Quality Management.  Whatever you call it, it’s what all artists do: start with an ABORTIVE ATTEMPT, step back and take a look at it via GESTALT, then set about fixing it through SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION.

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Details will be found, naturally, in Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy, available on Amazon, Fri, Nov 17.