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“I’m not creative.”
“I wish I could be more creative, but I don’t have it in me.”
“Why are some people creative and others aren’t?”
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard those statements or questions…
The truth is almost everyone has creative potential. What separates good creatives (or dormant creatives that get lucky) is that they’ve learned how to walk
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09.30.08
Brilliant!
I love that you focus on the 'incubation' period and the collaborative element of creativity. It can be difficult to strike a balance between the two-- that is, recognizing the power of your own creative process while being open to the ideas and input of others. I would add: Don't be afraid that criticism will derail you. Harnessing the power of other perspectives can strengthen your message, and at worst, they can be politely dismissed.
Yours is a beautifully structured and well developed argument, and all around, a really amazing post, Charles.
Thank you!
09.30.08
Great post! All too often people assume they are not creative or that they can only use creativity to create art or an actual product.
Thanks for sharing the creative process. It's something we can all use to create something new, not just art or products, but new ideas.
09.30.08
Great topic, nicely written.
I find the "implementation" work, the hardest, as I try to match limited time and resources. Lots of ideas ... limited time. I try to stick to just a couple good ones, at a time.
The "illumination" stage is easiest for me, as that's when I often get "into the zone." (Time passes quickly as all I see is what's in front of me.) It's the cool "aha" moments.
The "preparation" part could be considered a life well lived, as you say, where one gets inspiration from every day events. I figure my 20s and 30s were good for that. Great note about it being "social." I've always thought of inspiration as "external ideas." Poets have called it finding their Muse.
The "incubation" period for me is when I go do something else for a while, like cleaning house. I know when I actually find time for house chores, that I've avoiding implementing something else, most likely because it hasn't incubated enough yet, for me to actually have a plan, or idea to carry through.
Thank you.
09.30.08
To me, it seems that the implementation part is where most of the creative work breaks down. So much attention has been given to creative inspiration, coming up with new ideas, and not nearly enough to creative discipline, actually making your inspirations a finished product. How many unfinished creative works are there out in the world? Far too many. It seems as soon as someone loses the creative urge or inspiration, whatever project they are working on dies with it.
What I would like to see is more on the creative discipline to finish the implementation when you lose the creative inspiration and finishing the project has become a chore.
As for creativity, because I had no artistic talent, or ability to express myself in creative mediums, I though I had no talents at all, which put me at odds with my family and many of my peers. I figured that all I had was just enough smarts to realize that I had no talent, and would have to out hustle everyone for any kind of success. It wasn't until high school and college, where mathematics, chemistry, physics, electronics and computer science came easily to me that I realized that my focus was critical and scientific, rather than strictly creative.
09.30.08
Great post! Thank you for writing it. I really have to cut out all the distractions and overflow of information in my life and start actually using my brain. Good things might come out of it.
12.03.08
I love this post and I agree with most of it. The only part that I would comment on is the IQ part. I don't feel that numbers are any way of measuring creativity. As a matter of fact, creativity is the antithesis of numbers. But you were right on with everything else.
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