creativity made simple

everyone is unique and has special skills/abilities. it is easy to see as a child: the things you have skills in are often the things you are naturally inclined to do. it is hard as heck to see as an adult... especially growing up and being trained that you need to perform in one specific manner (what's good for the horse does not work for the manitee); or being trained that what you do is not respectable enough; or being trained that you, personally, are not good or special enough to continue honing your craft.

this is all B.S. and this is the type of brainwash a society built on mass-production feeds a child in his/her formative years.


but i believe creativity never really dies. what makes you creative is the same as what makes you who you are. adults are rarely themselves, it is true. it takes work. you have to peel off the layers of lies that you've been fed as a child, and re-learn yourself from scratch. only after doing this, will your creativity begin to open up and blossom.

you know, it's funny, when i say "it takes work", i really mean "it takes play". but you know what?! play is an adult's work.