I like your vivid example of push-ups to transport the message.

Yes, I go along with that principle. Probably the misconception that you have to do more is that people rarely allow themselves to do anything in a relaxed attitude.

To take as much time as they want and not to pass judgement on themselves when something doesn't work out. I think people in general don't turn enough to the arts, which means that actually anything can be elevated to art, no matter what, cooking, cleaning, being in conversation with each other.

But it must not be forced, it wants to be spontaneous and yet artfully accomplished. So perhaps one should remain silent or do nothing for a while if this does not want to succeed. I notice that patience plays an essential role in all my creative processes. If I sew and I make mistakes, but ignore them, botch, then the end product has actually been a waste of time and resources. But if I make a mistake and patiently unpick a failed area, devote myself to correcting it in peace, I reach my goal of creating a really good quality product. There is hardly anything more beautiful to do in life than to produce a thing of quality.

I am not there yet in my sewing school, but I am slowly but surely getting closer. The many mistakes along the way are teaching me. Interestingly, mistakes are often a source of inspiration, I have found that many a mistake can serve as an idea for a new or different way of solving a problem. Creativity is born out of it.