Creativity

“Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected, maybe - vulnerability and freedom.”

― Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

The truth is that one day you hate yourself, and the next day you can’t wait to use your gifts

-Adam Jk

The Writing Life - Annie Dillard

> One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal

Sometimes the process of thinking looks like needless chaos from the outside

But thats what creatives should be doing.

Banging on random objects just to see what it might shake out.

Creatives need to make a mess in order to arrive at clarity.

“If you are creative, the world will bow down to you.”

Where do you get your inspiration? What sorts of things do you fill your head with? What do you read? Do you subscribe to anything? What sites do you visit on the Internet? What music do you listen to? What movies do you see? Do you look at art? What do you collect? What’s inside your scrapbook? What do you pin to the corkboard above your desk? Wha

Highly creative people are usually absent-minded, as their brains spend most of the time connecting dots that seem to have no connection.