“I often don’t know what I’m looking for, and even if I do, what I actually find is more often than not better than what I set out to find.”
Here’s your excuse to be a little disorganized.
Austin Kleon points out examples of creative people who developed the art of finding what you didn’t know you were looking for and explains how doing so can help you in your creative pursuits.
His examples include successful artists who leave their notebooks, albums, and folders purposefully disorganized in ways that enable creative serendipity.