{"id":385,"date":"2019-01-11T19:56:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T01:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindagorchels.com\/blogs\/?p=385"},"modified":"2019-05-01T21:55:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T02:55:38","slug":"yes-you-can-be-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindagorchels.com\/blogs\/yes-you-can-be-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, You Can Be Creative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Creativity is the hot topic of 2019. Scan almost any magazine within the past six months, and chances are you will find articles on creativity. Some are fluffy click bait, but many offer decent tips on improving your creativity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most provide tips on becoming more creative. Is that even possible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

50 Shades of Creativity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it’s possible. There are at least 50 shades of creativity. It is NOT a one-size-fits-all concept. And your DNA doesn’t hold you captive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott Barry Kaufman raised an interesting point in his Psychology\nToday<\/em> article,  Genius,\nGenes, and Gusto: How Passions Find You<\/a>.  A person\u2019s natural endowment may explain between 22\nand 36 percent of the differences in creative achievement in the arts and\nsciences. The flip side is that a lot of creative passion is because of things\nother than genetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some component of creativity comes from heredity. But that\ndoesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t learn to become more creative. You can.  Marily Oppezzo,<\/a> in her\nTED talk, states that creativity is a choice that any of us can make. However,\nyour expression of creativity is unique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Work and the Creative Class<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

New York Times Magazine, in “Does \u2018Creative\u2019 Work Free You From Drudgery, or Just Security?<\/strong><\/a>“, defined the Creative Class. Judy Rosen called it \u201ca catchall that takes in web coders, graphic designers, copywriters, actors, painters, D.J.s, cocktail mixologists, Instagram influencers and all the rest of the culture-and-information-industry professionals that the sociologist Richard Florida famously called \u2018the creative class\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The creativity inherent in these job functions differs, as\ndid reader comments to the article. There were a couple I thought valuable in\nhighlighting different shades of creativity. The first is part of a comment by\nTucker from Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Expression from Baltimore, MD<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am a full-time professional artist who owns a small creative company with 4 employees and the starving artist myth is just that – a myth. The majority of greatest artists in history have been shrewd businessmen, hard-working marketers, and managed large staffs of employees. From Michelangelo to Warhol, walk through the museum and with few exceptions, you will see the work of hard-working managers. If you treat it like a business, it will treat you like a CEO. Making art is work and the arts are a product every civilization wants and needs. It follows the same economic principals as any other business in the end. Poor economic outcomes usually reflect the artist\u2019s own lack of self-esteem rather than the market\u2019s need for the arts. I would love to see fewer artists statements telling me why you made it and more telling me why I should buy it as a basic start. I\u2019d like to see more artists collecting and buying what they expect others to buy. \u201cStarving artist\u201d is simply an excuse for \u201clazy, self-absorbed, artist.\u201d Get over yourself, get to work, stop whining, do what you love, and change the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Creative Expression from San Francisco<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Another reader (Jen from San Francisco) concisely compared\nand contrasted artistic (seamstress) and scientific (engineering) creativity.,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am an engineer and a seamstress by hobby. Both require creativity, but very, very different forms. Not all creativity is the same. Skill is the difference. What most people think of as creative work is skill based, one that creates a sense of flow. The song writes itself. This story pops out of my head. The fabric spoke to me. Getting that flow requires skill and practice. The engineering skill is about laboring over the details, making sure everything is just so. It is not a job where flow is involved, though you think very creatively. Due diligence is the antithesis to creativity, though it is needed to make sure that creatively works. Where the \u201ccreatives\u201d fail in this piece is that lack of laboring over the details. You may be able to create flow in your work, in your social media outreach, but unless you can realistically focus on the details, you will fail. The Fyre festival could have been a success in the hands of less \u201ccreative\u201d people who cannot see past the flow of \u201cnow.\u201d They ripped people off because they couldn\u2019t face the reality that real-world stuff is hard\u2026 You cannot create something big off ideas alone. You\u2019ve got to be able and willing to work it. Due diligence isn\u2019t fun, but it\u2019s the foundation for most success. You can\u2019t build most things by relying on skill alone. Living creatively means being able to live off the proceeds of selling your skill. That is why a creative life can be so precarious.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I loved the personal interpretations these two commentators\nshared. They recognized the truth of creative expression\u2014even to the point of\nexecution. Don\u2019t allow the \u201cI\u2019m-not-creative\u201d meme to hold you back. CHOOSE\ncreativity, and find your own path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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