On Discipline and Specificity: Starting Thoughts

Before I can start exploring the question at the core of all of these thoughts, I feel like I ought to define my terms.

All right.

I know I want to get some of these thoughts out of my mind and into the world, but I’m not quite sure where to begin.

Before I can start exploring the big question at the core of all of this — which, by the way, is “what is the difference between discipline and specificity,” or perhaps “can you have specificity without discipline,” and you can already see that the way in which I phrase the question will affect the way in which I answer it, so I’m going to want to ensure the question itself is, shall we say, specific -

Where was I?

Before I can start exploring the question at the core of all of these thoughts, I feel like I ought to define my terms.

Especially the term “specificity,” which seems to be the key behind all of this.

(Unless it’s discipline.)

(Which means I should probably define “discipline,” too.)

This isn’t just an art question, by the way, and it isn’t just a creativity question — though it started out as a discussion of how to become…