What is an Anti-Creative Mindset?
Often we are told that our desire to be creative is unimportant, or less valuable than other obligations and responsibilities in our lives. Through dialogue or omission, most people I know have faced someone spouting “would-be advice” to maintain the status quo....
How to Numb Your Creativity
We use technology today as a social crutch. And by choosing to do so, we destroy our quiet moments of creative insight. Lines in grocery stores. Waiting at a restaurant for a friend. Dining alone. Waiting for friends at the bar while they go to the washroom. Sitting...
The Myth of the Starving Artist
“How nice for you to have an interest like art, but really, how are you going to make money from it?” So many people I have met have shared a similar story with me. One where well meaning parents, teachers, or other authority figures tell them that their interest in...
How to Face Criticism in Creativity
I finished reading a book this week called Playing Big by Tara Mohr. It was recommended to me after I received “feedback” from my first internet troll. (I didn’t know you could use that many F bombs in one sentence!) When I first read what this person had to say, I I...
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