Even at our most creative moments, we could go further if it were not for that little voice inside our head.
And that little voice puts up roadblocks. Sometimes those roadblocks are real, but more often those roadblocks are completely constructed from nothing but irrational fear or the most basic of actions. Perhaps knowing that other people share many of the same silly roadblocks–and even knowing what some of them are–will help us all move through them.
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So today’s post is simple. Let’s put it out there. Just complete the sentence “I’d be more creative if…”
I’ll start us off. I’d be more creative if I more regularly created the quietness in my life that creativity requires.
Now it’s your turn.
[Why Do We Fail poster by Allen Ruppersberg]
I’d be more creative if I’d stop focusing so much on the technical aspect of photography and just …shoot…
Amen Stacy! I feel like I was much more creative when I first started shooting a couple of years ago. We’re so afraid of failure that it squanders our creativity (and this has been reinforced by all of our years spent in school learning that we must not make mistakes in order to achieve good grades… way to go public school system!)
…….. if I wasn’t so worried about not being able to meet my basic financial responsibilities.
Reading what others have said, and writing my own contribution, is quite cathartic – great idea Chase.
Well put Paul: Cathartic it is… thanks Chase
I’d be more creative if I’d put my fear aside and stop procrastinating
… if I was more deliberate about collaborating with creative people.
… if I was more adventurous and took more risks.
If I stopped reading all the gloom and doom stories of magazines, etc. and focused on the making of great images and stories with those images.