Even at our most creative moments, we could go further if it were not for that little voice inside our head.
And that little voice puts up roadblocks. Sometimes those roadblocks are real, but more often those roadblocks are completely constructed from nothing but irrational fear or the most basic of actions. Perhaps knowing that other people share many of the same silly roadblocks–and even knowing what some of them are–will help us all move through them.
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So today’s post is simple. Let’s put it out there. Just complete the sentence “I’d be more creative if…”
I’ll start us off. I’d be more creative if I more regularly created the quietness in my life that creativity requires.
Now it’s your turn.
[Why Do We Fail poster by Allen Ruppersberg]
There’s no way I could be more creative. I can be as creative as I want to. I think that the question was read in a misleading way by most (if not all people – I didn’t read everything, sorry!).
Most people just gave some form of justification of why they didn’t spend more time on being creative. Or more effort, you choose your poison, it’s the same thing.
Because I have a job, because I don’t charge anyone for my pictures, does that mean I’m not creative? Was Chase a non-creative entity before he went pro? Are all the students in all colleges around the world, just mindless gray people?
No! Absolutely not. I feel that I’m as creative as my own limitations (jobs, spouses, these are all external). It’s my own incompetence or unwillingness to go further that limits some aspects of my creativity.
Or even, not my creativity, but my creative actions, or output. The actions is what’s affected by our own roadblocks. Not our creativity.
Nothing else… Jobs, the government, the navy seals, you name it, are not limits to your creativity. Because you create first with your mind.
I could be thinking of making a jeans commercial that involved three young models with jean pockets sown into their eyes (make-up) and nothing else, while they enjoyed a frenzy of drinking and sex, but be afraid to share this idea with said three models, or with the client.
Two different things.
I’d be more creative if I shed the small stuff, focused on the art, and realized every day that what I do makes me the happiest in the world; no one in the world can take that away from me.
i’d be more creative if i got my own clone, one to do the creative stuff one to do the hustle bustle ‘you-have-to-do-it-work’ 😀
I’d be more creative if I spent more time in real space and less time in cyber space.
Reading blogs is just another form of Procrastination. Although I enjoy reading A Photo Editor, Heather Morton Art buyer, What’s the Jackanory?, Benjamin Kanarek blog, Melissa Rodwell blog, Thoughts of a Bohemian, Seth Godin blog as well as Chase’s blog, this time could be better spent actually doing something.
So I’m going to cut my internet time by 90%. Starting now!
…if I let myself work one or two ideas through instead of getting so overwhelmed with the TONS of inspiration around me.
…if I just let go and explored on my own and didn’t care about failing.
…if I interacted more with other artists.