I suspect many of you have also had something like the following experience. When I am working on creating something, like a piece of computer code, or an animated character, or a procedural texture, sometimes I get sort of lost in the process.<\/p>\n
I become so immersed that I forget all about myself. Time drifts by, and I tune out things like hunger or sleep.<\/p>\n
When I emerge from this flow state, maybe a few hours later, I sometimes find that something wonderful has been created. Something that didn’t exist before.<\/p>\n
And at such times I ask myself “Where did that come from?” Because I don’t quite remember having created what I am looking at.<\/p>\n
In such situations I hesitate to take credit for the result, because it seems to have come from somewhere else. In a sense it feels that I was not the creator, but rather the instrument.<\/p>\n
Well, whoever it is that I am working with at such times, I realize that I am privileged to have such a great and generous collaborator. All I can say is “Thank you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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