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Let Creativity Catch You
It’s harder and harder today to get a moment of peace. We have devices surrounding us asking for our attention at all times. Replying to a tweet isn’t creating, it may be your opinion but it’s a reactionary thought. True creative thoughts are proactive, where you are creating. Where the source of the creation comes from somewhere deep inside of you. This can only be accessed through stillness. “Stillness is what aims the archer’s arrow,” says Ryan Holiday, author of Stillness is the Key, “It inspires new ideas. It sharpens perspective and illuminates connections.”
It may seem that successful people all lead very busy lives. While they have a lot of output they are spending much more time thinking than most. Any successful creative individual has most certainly spent a lot of time with their own thoughts. As Pharrell Williams said, “You gotta go inward to experience the outer space that was built for you.”
Idleness is hard for many, especially with the current way we lead our lives. Many of us avoid being idle at all costs, I personally would fill every waking moment with screen time or busy work in order to not be alone with my thoughts. Consider being afraid of the dark; while most believe they’re afraid of something or someone lurking in the shadows. I believe the real reason we’re afraid is we finally slow down for the night and all the “bad” thoughts come rushing in. It’s easy to avoid during the day because you can fill up your brain with work tasks, errands to run and dishes that need cleaning; but when the world quiets down we now need to face those lurking thoughts that we don’t want to face.
I believe the best way to find truth in your creativity is to sit in these uncomfortable feelings. If we stop running for just a few minutes, all that creative inspiration you’ve been searching for will catch up with you. Today’s world is fast and creativity can’t keep up. The only way to interact with it is to slow down and go with the flow.