Weekly Roundup: Creativity, Again
Dec. 2 - Dec. 7, 2019
Monday: Nobody needs to give you permission to start your thing in your basement after the kids are in bed. But if you ask for permission, the flame that burns underneath your dream, dwindles. And eventually extinguishes.
Tuesday: Cliches are not creative. And maybe worse, they promote an environment of non-creativity. Anyone swimming in an environment of cliches and predictability knows how difficult it is to do good, imaginative work. It’s virtually impossible.
Wednesday: We’re not all heroes. At least not yet. But we all need one. We need creative heroes. Not that we should plagiarize their work, or mimic their behavior, but that we might model our creative purposes after theirs.
Thursday: Flippant, immature, banalities like scantily clad women selling perfume or muscular men selling sunglasses are the cultural instantiation of love turned in on itself. It is love that is narcissistic. And narcissism is creativity’s nemesis.
Friday: But creativity thrives in silence. Innovation needs space. Mental space. Empty space—not filled with Netflix or music or podcasts or phone calls.
Saturday: Creativity is access to transcendence. Take it away and the world becomes flat, monochromatic, and predictable. Nurture transcendence and texture, color, and possibility abounds.
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