One strategy for making something good is removing everything that is bad. To do this, you need to precisely define [[what what makes something bad|what what makes something bad]] After you define why something is bad, the solution to make something good is normally obvious, unless you are in the unfortunate situation that you need a [[creative leap]] > here is an unlikely tale about the brilliant Renaissance artist Michelangelo. He was asked about the difficulties that he must have encountered in sculpting his masterpiece David. But he replied with an unassuming and comical description of his creative process: > > It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn’t look like David