I recently learned about the impressive ‘Drawing Marathon’ at the Rhode Island School of Design from a colleague who participated in the program a few years ago.
It’s an intensive course where participants draw from 9am to 9pm every day for a month. The only thing they do (or have energy for) outside of drawing is eating and sleeping.
My colleague mentioned the positive benefit it had on how they approach creative work. The good ideas are often 20+ ideas deep, so they make sure to create, and explore, and try a lot of ideas because they know the first ideas won’t cut it.
I think this is an idea that people get conceptually, but programs like the Drawing Marathon help people internalise and truly understand the amount of work required to get to the good ideas.