Current Mood:  pensive
I've been doing some reading and listening about creativity over the last several months. (By the way, I highly recommend this interview with John Hodgman.) One theme that emerges again and again is that creativity is just something that you do. Creative people *create*. This seems self-evident, and yet.... At MaxFunCon, Merlin Mann gave a talk about creativity, which could be summed up as, stop making excuses and just do it. I kind of feel like I've been making excuses not to be creative for a long time - possibly my entire adult life. Another thing that Merlin said was that we're just too chicken-shit afraid to find out how successful we can (or can't) be. After hearing that, and thinking on it for some weeks now, I think he might have my number. ( More thoughts... )
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