Legendary music producer Quincy Jones (RIP) famously said “Leave space for God to walk through the room”.

In any creative pursuit, we can’t plan our way into brilliance. If that were true, there’d be more spreadsheet Mozarts out there, and a lot fewer meddlesome, irrational, unpredictable artist/genius types.

As tempting as the idea is to schedule everything ahead of time in an Excel sheet, brilliance always requires a bit of randomness—a bit of chaos.

Are you trying to plan everything? Or are you leaving space for unexpected magic?