101 - Finding Creativity

Finding creativity can sometimes be hard, and sometimes be easy. Music and links from this episode Ambiant Point Of No Return by Kimiko Pinçon by Comme Jospin Feet Gone Wild by Alpha Hydrae Line-by-line notes INTRO Creativity can sometimes be like a rare jewel Everybody knows the power of it And how beautiful it is But it can be really difficult to find Other times, creativity is like a cheap £2 jewel It’s everywhere And anybody can find it And buy it for cheap This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess PLAY MID SONG Creativity is weird that way That it can sometimes be readily available And other times Absolutely impossible to find Creativity can’t be controlled It can’t be summoned on command like the other skills you already possess If somebody says What’s 2 plus 2 You immediately work out the answer is 4 But if somebody says to you I want you to create a piece of artwork About the number 4 The answer either immediately popped into your head Or you wouldn’t even know where to begin Imagine selling your creativity professionally It can sometimes be a difficult skill to harness on command Some days I’ll turn up creatively And some days I know my creativity has gone for a walk But I still need to summon up the ideas The thing that usually separates a seasoned creative From a young inexperienced one Is the ability to use techniques to summon the mysterious power of creativity When it isn’t readily available It might sound easy The job of a designer Just sitting drawing stuff all day But the pressure is actually much greater than that Most people get to enjoy their creativity when the mood strikes But professional creatives, people like designers Have to learn to turn it on like a tap when it’s necessary So because of that the pressure is quite high to perform When you tell people you’re a designer Or a member of any other creative pursuit They expect you to be creative To be different to them in some way I guess in a way that might be true That we’re wired up different, and think slightly differently I think it’s possible that creatives might think slightly differently But I don’t buy the right brain, left brain paradigm I believe anybody can learn to become more systems focused Or anybody can learn to become more creative I think the environment that you put a human being in Largely dictates their level of creativity Children are by default creative And as creativity is often seen as a childish concept As we get older and older We get more of the child pushed out of us, and forced way Creative people are the people who fought back against that push And survived out of the other side to continue their childish pursuit of...