Creating may often include anxiety and other sorts of fear. We need to develop courage and learn how to deal with these feelings to be more fully creative.
“Art work is ordinary work, but it takes courage to embrace that work.”
That is a qu…
Dealing With Worry and Anxiety To Be More Creative
“Anxiety is the great silencer of the creative person.” Eric Maisel, PhD
One form of anxiety is so-called writer’s block. This photo is Nicolas Cage as screenwriter Charlie Kaufman in the movie “Adaptation” by the real screenwriter Ch…
What Keeps You Away From Creative Work?
As a child or teenager, we were perhaps more freely creative, but as supposed “grown-ups” we face fears and uncertainties about our talents, or the marketplace value of a particular form of expression, or what our investing in a project mea…
Mistakes Fuel Creativity and Innovation
What seems to be a setback, error or limitation, may often be valuable for encouraging more creative thinking and innovation.
Valerie Young writes about two “mistakes” that resulted in very successful products:
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Be Creative: Intuition and Procrastination
“A good artist lets their intuition lead them wherever it wants.” – Lao-Tzu
Do you use intuition in your creative explorations? Or other parts of your life? Many creative people declare intuition is a valuable, even essential, part o…