Liminal Creativity

Tolerating ambiguity, frustration, and changes in the grand plan and being open to new experiences are essential to creative work. Indeed, they are what makes creativity work.”

It’s a creative space, a place where problems are solved in unfathomable ways, the answers arriving like truths known all along.

The point is that when we set out to build individual lives based on creativity rather than anxiety, the problems we face help stimulate the creative process. That’s wonderful news, because though we may run out of many resources, our supply of problems never goes dry.

In thinking about the creative potential within the everyday—*I’ve been obsessing on this topic for years—*I think a lot about what assumptions we carry around what’s possible, what’s worth it, what the timeline has to be, what’s for us or not for us, what’s difficult, what’s life-giving.

Shifting your way of doing something, even and especially ju