Safety rules for a creative person
IN SHORT:
1. Do not ignore the wish to be creative.
2. Do not judge the importance of being creative by the level of the result.
3. Remember that creativity is a process, not a result.
4. Do not strive to turn creativity into a profession.
5. Look for people like yourself. Not necessarily in the same kind of creativity.
6. Warn the people close to you that you need to be creative from time to time, just as they need to eat and sleep from time to time.
IN MORE DETAIL:
1. The creative wish is very persistent. It does not go away by itself, it is almost impossible to suppress and impossible to forget. It keeps reminding you of itself. If the creative wish is not realised, even on a small scale, tension builds up, along with dissatisfaction with your way of life. At some point this can lead to an explosion. So it is better to "let off steam" regularly, even a little at a time.
2. The creative wish is the wish to create. It does not depend on the ability to create. The quality of the result depends on mastery. Mastery is a skill acquired through practice and learning. A lack of skills does not cancel the wish to create.
3. It is important to remember that a person is creative because they enjoy the process. The pleasure of the result goes to the viewer and to the author, who also becomes a viewer from the moment the work is finished.
4. Creativity is directly connected with the creative person’s own thoughts and feelings. A profession is about satisfying clients’ wishes. Personal wishes and clients’ wishes coincide extremely rarely, which is why creative people often fall into depression and blame others for not understanding the idea well enough.
Professionalism is the ability to solve the client’s tasks, not the author’s.
5. If a creative person sees no other people around with creative wishes and creative activities, they start doubting whether their creative wishes are sensible and necessary. And conversely, when a creative person sees other people being creative, they are emotionally inspired. Even if those people do a completely different kind of creative work and there is nothing to learn from them.
6. People who have no creative wishes find it very hard to understand how important they are to creative people. They will always suggest doing what they understand: work, household, entertainment, socialising, sport, watching films... Things of this kind never end. If a creative person cannot set aside time for their creativity, it will not appear by itself, especially not regularly. Accordingly, their wish will never be satisfied, with all the problems from point 1.
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