I’ve been interested for some time in our assumptions about creativity, where we learn them, and how they define us. Here are the results from an online survey posing eight questions on the matter. If you’d like to learn a bit more about yourself and the creative process, the survey’s still up. Or just visit my blog for the results to date.
What is Creativity: Transforming Suffering into Light
With music as his “weapon of choice,” Emmanuel Jal is doing the real work of the artist in society, transforming his suffering into light. But this work is not for the artist alone. It is for us all. For we all suffer. And the world is in need of light.
“How do you define Creativity?”
If we are to have any power at all over the quality of our lives, this is a question we all must answer for ourselves. How do we define creativity? And what place does it have in our lives?
My Declaration of Independence: The Right to Create The Future
Rights, even inalienable ones, cost. We may not have paid those costs personally, but someone did. That is what gives them value. Not claiming our rights costs too, as we choose to suffer in relationships, companies and societies where we cannot flourish rather than pay the costs for our personal freedom.
Creativity, Mindfulness and the Malicious Post
Getting trapped in trying to change things that can’t be changed robs us of our power to change what we can. Circumstances are the most powerful partners we have for choreographing our lives. I may have cracked a rib last Sunday night. But, three creative guidelines emerged from that traumatic moment…
Our stories connect us
I’m sitting on the bench in the Laundromat doing my monthly laundry, waiting for the last of my clothes to dry. It is now only the two of us in this place. The smiling woman has draped her body across the bench and covered her face with her scarf. She is talking incessantly, and laughing without restraint. I can’t quite make out her words. Sometimes it sounds as if she’s praying, sometimes having a conversation with herself. She is not here to do laundry. She is a mirror.