As an addendum to my previous post:
All children are creative. Almost all adults are too. But for some strange reason, we usually only call human endeavors creative if they are in the arts. In my opinion, that is erroneous.
I was coming in to post something like this, but I think maybe I’m just having a bad week. I have to be creative every damn day and sometimes I’m just sick of it. Today I’d really like to do something mindless and mundane instead of having to come up with yet another concept for a rebrand. Somebody please give me some typos I need correcting. Thank god it’s Friday.
Creativity is a thought process, not an activity. You can be creative in correcting typos (“Huh, I wonder since when they started to contract you are into you’re? Why don’t people do that with other expressions? Shall I invent a couple new contractions and try to let them go viral??”), and artisan-but-not-artistic crafts when making a quilt, as CrazyCatLady’s aunt Barbara shows.
Creativity is enjoyable for the person being creative. Just like doing a sport is for sporty persons and enjoying music is for musical ones, and being crafty is for persons who like to make stuff.
We should push kids to explore if creativity, sports, music or religion (or any other character trait, really) is part of their interest and skill set. Once they have explored it and found their level of interest, there is little use in pushing them to be sporty, musical, religious or creative beyond their level of interest and skill. So no, we should not push adults to be creative.
The results that creativity yields, vary wildly depending on the level of skill and practice of the maker. If you’re happy to make stuff just for yourself and your loved ones, go right ahead. If you try and get recognition, or produces something useful, beyond your inner circle, you’ll end up on Regretsy.
That is why people in creative jobs have a very hard time, as said upthread.
Well, obviously. Which is why I’m currently longing for a break from it as when you have to do it all day, everyday, it makes you brain tired.
One does not necessarily follow the other. ‘Being creative’ is not just a hobby or pleasant diversion in all cases. I can get huge satisfaction from it, and at other times it’s just a pain in the arse. Like today - I have to dredge the depths of my creative thinking to pull something out of the bag before the weekend. I would sincerely love to just go fishing or rewatch The Godfather trilogy with a bag of chips on my lap.
What does rebrand mean?
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