Craft Chat Creativity is not a talent…

[LJ Beck]

Love this! Thoughts??

 

[Sedayne]

Thanks for posting this, Lyse. It really chimed with me. I do believe that creativity is a way of doing things.
It's also interesting that Cleese considers creativity to be play. I wouldn't have necessarily thought that, but maybe it is.
It reminded me of something I heard Gretchen Rubin say on a podcast years ago - I'm paraphrasing here - one way to be happy as an adult is to do what made you happy as a ten-year-old. For me that was writing stories. It made me happy as a ten-year-old, and it's making me happy again in my fifties.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

Creativity in a way is a talent. It is the talent of letting go all those restrictions of the brain. Allow yourself to jumble up your experiences and reform them into something else, something new. I know a lot of people who's nature/nurture/personality won't let them do that.