Creativity is Genius
by Do you see yourself as creative? How do you see creativity?
On the other hand, we all experience some degree of creativity in daily routines. I never shave the same way two times. When you stir your coffee in the morning, do you perform the same number of circles with the teaspoon every day?
It’s this that makes me think that creativity is accessible to all. What we probably have to do is to become conscious of it in our daily lives and try to increase it, to cultivate it, to breathe it. Sitting in a rocking chair every evening is, according to some, a good way to start since it stimulates right-brain activity.
Some people who might not see themselves as creative may actually have with themselves some considerable amount of creativity, but have never explored it. I, for 17 years living in Australia, always dismissed my mild talent for writing, this on the self-defeating thought that I would never be able to speak fluently, so hard English seemed to me.
I think also that the discipline our parents so lovingly imposed on us when we were young could be an impediment to creativity. And social pre-concepts are sometimes heavy on people trying to become more creative: a regular person is seen as predictable and therefore trusting; a creative person may be seen as insane.
As a rule, I believe that most people, given the necessary training, could develop substantial amounts of creativity and apply it to their quest for self-fulfillment. I think, though, that some people, and perhaps those bands playing The Beatles and ABBA in pubs, are just plain deserving their pay in cents.
Now, if you have large quantities of creativity concentrated in one area of expression, how is it like? I imagine that these people feel very early in life that they must do something, like Mozart had to do music, and cannot conceive life in any other way but to exploring their talent. In my minuscule dimension, I discovered at the age of 10 years, after doing a 4th grade examination where I wrote a small fictional text that the greatest thing on earth was writing. And all through my life I have felt the need to write.
To this kind of people, intense hard-work is the only way out from potential to actual success. And they must do this work because undeveloped talent suffocates oneself.
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