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How to Be Creative
Technically, you can’t call yourself creative unless you keep creating. Having gifts, skills and abilities is nice, but not essential. In fact, it is possible to possess a lot of talent and not be creative. Creative people create.
Technically, you can’t call yourself creative unless you keep creating.
We easily get hung up on the idea of worth. We have an obsessive need to measure the worth of anything we create – in terms of money, praise, “likes” or other acclaim. We are so programmed to carry out these evaluations, that we easily start doing it in the middle of a creative process. Needless to say, it kills the mood.
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- Test Your State Of Flow
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Paradoxically, creativity is worth it, regardless of the end result. It stimulates the brain, fights depression and staves of dementia, to name a few. It’s also good to remember, that you simply don’t know the worth of anything until it’s out there. Until then, you are far better off erasing those thoughts out of your mind and just focusing on the creation itself.
If you find it difficult to clear your mind and access the creative flow, we recommend Mindfulness. To get you started, here’s a great article on the State of Flow and Mindfulness.
So, keep on creating!
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