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I've spent a lot of time thinking about this over the years, but I've never really been able to put my thoughts into words until it just hit me the other day. This is what I came up with:
It requires a sixth sense to bring into the world something that doesn't yet exist but, in your mind, clearly should. It takes imagination to see what should be or what could be, skill to build that new thing in whatever form it takes, and perseverance to see the project through to completion.
Creativity is the ability to see what isn't there and figure out a way to bring that missing thing into existence.
It requires a sixth sense to bring into the world something that doesn't yet exist but, in your mind, clearly should. It takes imagination to see what should be or what could be, skill to build that new thing in whatever form it takes, and perseverance to see the project through to completion.
What do you think? How do you define creativity? What does being a creative person mean to you personally?
I've been published!
I've been published!
Check out my short story "The Case of a Portal on Mars" in this awesome anthology Pioneers & Pathfinders (Kindle edition) and you can get the paperback version here.
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Don't Plot with Tarot
Ever been curious about tarot's storytelling abilities? Or just curious about it in general? I've been learning it and relating it to the thing I know best: creativity and storytelling. I've gotta say, while I'm certainly not a mystic nor superstitious and I don't remotely believe tarot can tell the future, it has a lot to say about the human experience. Since storytelling is all about the human experience, I've found tarot has a lot of insight into storytelling and creativity in general.
I thought it would be a fun challenge to learn and practice by pulling two cards and connecting them in a humorous way that relates to storytelling and/or
Books to Make Your Life Better - 2019
I have an older journal with more books and videos that will make your life better here: Books that Will Make Your Life Better. Now I'm continuing to share the philosophies and information that make my life better in 2019, mainly those about living intentionally and creative mastery. Nearly all of them are available as audiobooks and should be available at your local library or on the free app Libby.
Enhance Your Creativity:
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success by Kerry Patterson (and others)
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the Wor
14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge (from 1936)
I thought this was interesting and useful, so I'm sharing it here:
14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge: A Timeless Guide from 1936
by Maria Popova
The quest for intellectual growth and self-improvement through education has occupied yesteryear’s luminaries like Bertrand Russell and modern-day thinkers like Sir Ken Robinson and Noam Chomsky. In 1936, at the zenith of the Great Depression, the prolific self-help guru and famous eccentric James T. Mangan published You Can Do Anything! — an enthusiastic and exclamation-heavy pep-manual for the art of living. Though Mangan was a positively kooky character — in 1948, he publicly clai
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I'd have to say you aren't far off from how I would describe it, creativity being the ability to create connections and ideas that did not formerly exist based on your own experiences and thoughts, and then successfully use this knowledge and understanding to bring these concepts into being through different forms of media. (A bit more wordy then yours, but a along the same lines 
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