...The act of creating requires us to find time to ourselves and slow down enough to hear our own ideas--both the good and the bad ones. Some degree of isolation is required in order to do creative work, because the artist is constantly working through ideas or projects in his mind--and these ideas need space to be developed. The creative person's mind is "shifting his information at all times, even when he is not conscious of it" Asimov wrote in an essay, first published in 2014. The presence of others can only inhibit this process, since creation is embarasing. For every new good idea you have, there are 100, 10,000 foolish ones, which you naturally do not come to display.