The writer equates the feeling of life’s fast pace and demands for productivity to riding among speeding trucks on a highway. The author suggests taking a slower route sometimes to maintain creativity and offers twenty simple actions to foster it. These actions include carrying a notebook, setting daily creative time, changing environments, participating in different creative activities, collaborating with others, and celebrating small successes, among others.
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