There’s a misalignment between our expectations and the reality of the creative process.
Category: <span>Creativity</span>
There’s a lot of people that would love to be more creative, but while the benefits to a heightened creative capacity are clear, creativity itself comes in many shapes and sizes. This makes it rather…
I maintain that creativity is something we all share. The ability to blend different ideas and concepts together into an arresting new form is a basic feature of being human. Despite this, some are clearly…
Curiosity, according to Ian Leslie, is said to come about by our awareness of an information gap. An information gap is that uncomfortable feeling that you don’t know something you think you should. You recognize the known…
Natalie Portman recently gave a commencement speech at Harvard. She made an interesting point about inexperience and originality: “Fear protects us in many ways, but what has served me is diving into my own obliviousness.…
As a species we’re intent on pushing the limit. There’s really no telling how far we’ll go — to the edges of space and time itself? Or to a self-inflicted oblivion? Whatever the answer, we’re…
The Motivation to Create In an artists search for creative expression and endeavor comes the thought of value and worth. That value can come in many forms, anchored mostly in the artists reasons for creating…
The creative gateways. That’s what I like to call them. They’re the things you’ll often come into when people recommend ways to get creativity flowing. The things you do before that “A-ha” moment. That flash…
“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life”—Austin Kleon “I’m not creative.” I’ve heard that a few times. I still hear it, and I loathe it. The idea that…
I will start with the bad news and inform you that nothing you ever create, invent, design, or build is ever truly new. Sorry to start on such a sour note, but it’s true, there’s…