Articles helping you increase your creativity
Assuming the identity of a master artist requires that you know with some degree of intimacy the lives of certain artists that you admire and have viewed their works. Learning about their lives and ideas will be essential in “borrowing” their creative identity.
Lots of young people have some impressive creative ability, whether they are able to perform challenging pieces of music, star in a school play, create captivating paintings, or hold the limelight in a ballet recital. Often such endeavors get the lion’s share of time and focus when people are young, and then priorities shift somewhere along the way. Affording a particular lifestyle can seem much easier in a traditional job, and many times that means that the ballet shoes go into the back of a closet, the paints are put away, the favorite instrument gathers dust, and creative writing goes into speeches rather than novels.
When you free-associate with the concept of creativity, what arises? Perhaps what you connect to involves turning ideas into reality and plumbing the depths of imagination. Perhaps you think of particular artistic mediums, or of ways of being that entail risk taking, and exploration. For some, creativity is a soulful expression of self in whatever way fully reflects that person’s essence. Humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow asked, “The key question isn’t ‘what fosters creativity?’ but it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost?” The birthright of the real self is creativity. How can we reclaim this?
