Most of us spend our lives in a sort of production mode. We move from task to task, making the things, doing the things, and somewhere in all that churning we stop noticing the small mechanics underneath it all. We're too busy keeping the wheels turning to ask whether the wheels could turn a little better.

Here's a question I bet you've never asked yourself while making art: What problem am I solving?

Creativity is fundamentally about making connections between a problem and a solution. And when you start approaching your art that way, something shifts.