6 things to remember about being creative
Garr Reynolds at PresentationZen has been reading Brenda Ueland on creativity. Some great insights on a great book.
Here are the first six:
(1) “...the creative power is in all of you if you give it a little time, if you do not always keep it out by hurrying and feeling guilty in times when you should be lazy and happy. Or if you do not keep the creative power away by telling yourself the worst of lies—that you haven’t any.”Visit PresentationZen for the full text.(2) On why the creative power inside of us should be kept alive. “Why? Because it is life itself. It is the spirit. In fact, it is the only important thing about us. The rest of us is legs and stomach, materialistic cravings and fears.”
(3) “The imagination needs moodling—long inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering. People who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas…But they have no slow, big ideas.”
(4) “What you write today is the result of some span of idling yesterday, some fairly long period of protection from talking and busyness.”
(5) “...daily life, so much of which is nervous cacophonous, where one’s attention is unhappily jerked from this to that, so that the imagination inside cannot accumulate its strength and light.”
(6) “Do not forget to keep recharging yourself as children do, with a new thinking called ‘inspiration.’”
