Why Am I Not Always Creative?

Don’t say that and especially don’t let anyone else tell you that either. There's a 99% chance that you are creative. Most people are actually. It's a common human trait that only a few people seem to lack. The better question here is how to apply that creativity of yours. Do you love writing, or is music more of your thing? Is drawing or acting perhaps your passion? Find a creative outlet and build your skills in it.

How Exactly Do You Know That You Aren’t Creative?

What’s your idea of a creative person? Pause a moment to check if you have set the bar just too high!! Someone like a perfectionist who keeps chasing perfection and never achieves it. "Man cannot not create"; he is continuously creating his world through his words, actions, and behavior, and also influencing the worlds that others create around themselves. So creativity is a given in all individuals. One may simply not have looked at it from this perspective. So do revisit this belief of yours and you may be surprised that you have, in fact, created a lot many creations, insignificant as they may be. And they are your creations after all, and that is what matters.

You Haven’t Learned How to Be.

It’s fun and easy, and I’ll show you how. Telling your brain to automatically generate the mantra "my creativity is increasing" upon each inhale/exhale will result in a constant explosion of creativity and takes little practice. Anyone can do it. The mantra tricks your subconscious into creating that effect. For the average person, results happen rapidly, within 30 seconds to 5 minutes.

Says Who!

Have you never solved a problem, whipped up a dinner out of leftovers, found a way around a detour, guessed the end of a movie or book, or imagined yourself in the shoes of a pet or created with blocks? Humans are creative by nature. We are forever studying things, wondering about things, trying to do stuff with things, or things with stuff. We're so inherently creative that we take our creativity for granted most of the time. Of course, most of us aren’t Michelangelo, Charles Dickens, or Stephen Sondheim. Not all of us are creative enough to make it into some Hall of Fame. But we are all creative enough to survive in a world that’s constantly changing.

The biggest barrier to expressing our creativity is a fear that we're being judged, that our efforts will be laughed at, or scorned. This happens to lots of kids in school, especially elementary school. A teacher may downgrade a piece of art, or the class bully may mock it. Sometimes even parents do stuff like that. That’s like squashing a budding flower or kicking a puppy, and it’s wrong. Inadvertently, those experiences train us to doubt our creativity. They scare us away from indulging in activities like whistling or doodling, writing poetry, gardening, or woodworking. Don't let them do that! Nobody has to see your creativity until you are ready to show it. But in the meantime, please imagine a trumpet fanfare as a Creative Person. I

officially authorize you to mess around with crayons, or whittle, or plunk your guitar, or dance in the moonlight.

Namaste