Creative Process
I need to be innovative now!
I was delighted when Todd asked me to input to the blog, this is one of my favourite sites because it oozes passion…something that I feel is lacking in the world today..
I was reading a great article about conceptualists and experimentalists in Wired magazine written by Dan Pink about how people are all different and your best work can happen at any time. Some people such as Picasso(26), Mozart (30)produced their best work young and yet Mark Twain(50), Cezanne(64) and Beethoven(54) blossomed late. In this world of an increasing desire for innovation people feel the pressure to produce their best work almost from Day 1. But recognise that your talents grow, some people take time to develop their style, to fully understand what they are really passionate about. For many their best work only comes when talent is matched with life experience and yet others are best when raw and fresh. The world needs both and remember don’t judge people by their age….their best may still be to come!
The great thing is that you will never know whether you have peaked until you have lived your life. So for me this is inspirational, create everyday…be passionate…let your talent shine through and understand that no matter the age…you best work may well be waiting inside you, waiting for the right time to surprise the world.
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Reminds me, in a religious sense, of Pierre Tielhard de Chardin’s words:
Above all, trust the slow work of God.
We are, quite naturally,
impatient in everything to reach the end
without delay.
We should like to skip
the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on
the way to something unknown,
something new,
and yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stage of instability –
and that it may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you.
Your ideas mature gradually –
let them grow,
let them shape themselves,
without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today
what time (that is to say, grace and
circumstances acting
on your own good will)
will make them tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of
feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
Applies pretty well to creativity, too, for the Muse…she moves in mysterious ways.