- A full night’s sleep
- Good quality tools
- Engaged audience
- A mentor or a guide
- Regular thinking time
- Mastery of a platform
- Self-hosted challenges
- Showing up consistently
- A long period of not doing anything
- A network of supporters and patrons
- Deliberate practice to improve the craft
- Sharing the process and building in public
- Keeping eyes and ears open to understand the trends
- A nourishing environment that is conducive to the creation
