🎯 Creative Myths
I’ve heard folks say things like “I’m not creative”, and you probably have read the previous issues, only to sustain that posture as well, unfortunately, if you do not see yourself as creative, everything you’ve read previously and going forward would not make deep meaning to you, even if they do, you might not benefit maximally from them because you've conceptualized creativity as a “spark” moment
In the real sense, as long as you’re unto something, You’re Creative.
“Everybody has tremendous creative capacities,” said Sir Ken Robinson, the bestselling author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative, among other titles. “Because creativity is a process of having original ideas that have value… It’s a process, not a single event, not the “a-ha” moment but genuine creative processes involve taking two or more concepts and putting them together into something novel and valuable in its context.
Clay Shirky, author of Cognitive Surplus rightly said
On the spectrum of creative work, the difference between the Mediocre and the Good is vast, Mediocrity is however still on the spectrum, you can move from mediocre to good in increments. The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.
This presents a picture of our good old days' mathematics, number line.
You’re always on the spectrum, it is your responsibility to choose which path to go.
🚦 The Codes
I present to you the three codes we’ll consider in-depth in this series:
Learn
Create
Share
“Everyone is inherently creative,” Dr Fredricka Reisman, professor and founding director of the Creativity and Innovation program at Drexel said, but some have fueled it by these three core codes, by discovering the underlying workings of the concept of creativity, which goes thus:
Creatives are nothing but dots connectors, they’re always saddled with the responsibility of connecting the dots between Ideas, People and Experience (The three components of Creativity), hence the more we Learn, Create and Share our process & results (not result alone), we create more Ideas, meet more people and gain more valuable experience, thereby providing enough dots to be connected.
More insight in Codes of Creatives, series 1.
Book for the Series
I’ve recommended this book in a previous issue, but for the sake of emphasis, I’ll ask that you make this your current read if you will.
Book review: https://austinkleon.com/show-your-work/
Get the book from a free source: https://www.pdfdrive.com/show-your-work-10-ways-to-share-your-creativity-and-get-discovered-d199462138.html
❤ Things I loved over the week
Quote
Author Shakti Gawain on living authentically:
“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier.
The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.”
Source ~ Creative Visualization
TEDx Show
How to be a more creative person | Bill Stainton | TEDxStanleyPark
Bill Stainton is an award-winning actor and producer, widely known for a show called Almost live. He distilled the subject of creativity using his experience over the years as a use case, and the thing I absolutely loved was where he spoke about creativity is the ability to connect the dots of Ideas, Experience and People, so the more of these three you’re able to get, the more connections you’re able to get, still crunching on that.
🎁 Something Different
Documentary
The Story of C.S Lewis
I'd never really known C.S Lewis's story, I'd only heard his name some time ago until recently mentioned by Austin Kleon, author of show your work, as a person he's currently studying. Then I had to go check him out and here's what I found.
Before he turned ten, his mother died of cancer. So a young C. S. Lewis turned his back on God and became a militant atheist. Yet from that angry and confused young man, Lewis went on to become someone who stood up and brought hope to his nation in the darkest hours of World War II and then became the 20th century’s strongest advocate for Christianity as he longed for Joy. Love it.
End Note
If you’ve gained value from this issue and the previous issues, kindly, consider sharing this issue with like minds within your space.
See you in the next issue, #KeepCreating.
Dami, 👋
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