You only associate yourself with greatness, and are unafraid of taking risks to stoke your creative flames.
"We were a team, a double act, a partnership and yet also two very different people, handling the pressures of growing older, constant touring, dealing with success and keeping the creative flame burning in different ways".
When the Walt Disney Company bought Pixar Animation Studios for $7.4 billion in 2006, there was understandable concern that the media conglomerate that drove the famed Disney animation unit into the ground with duds like "Home on the Range" and "Chicken Little" would extinguish the creative flame that had nurtured the quirky and much-loved "Toy Story" and "Finding Nemo".
You can say that's a nice thing for an artist to want to do but there's something really weird about the Wilsons - they really worked that way.' In fact, following Brian's self-enforced retirement in the late Sixties it was Dennis, along with younger brother Carl, who became keeper of the Beach Boys creative flame.
"While he may write/paint/compose he spends long happy hours playing pool/Ping-Pong, reading his day's work aloud on the porch, and attempting to ensnare others in romantic dramas and erotic flirtations, which may spark the creative flame but ultimately take up too much valuable work time".
Miyamoto's schedule may still be demanding, including a significant amount of foreign travel to promote Nintendo games as well as his monthly trips to Tokyo, but there is a sense that, as he approaches 60, he is winding down, stepping aside to allow others to carry the creative flame.
Rekindling Disney's creative flame, though, is the key to the company's long term future, whomever is running it.
And he must deliver on two big things: improving Disney's below-industry-average financial performance and rekindling its creative flame.
"Mess around" more with what tickles your funny bone, with what reignites the flame of your creative play.
