Creativity Changes the World
Everything that exists in this world does so because someone was creative.
Creativity is that powerful.
Unfortunately, too many people subscribe to the limiting belief that creativity has something exclusively to do with drawing ability or innate artistic talent. This is the Myth of Creativity—and it simply isn’t true.
The Myth of Creativity
While being an artist is certainly a creative endeavor, creativity itself is not reserved for artists. The capacity to be creative is something all human beings possess. It is a divine endowment given to all of God’s children, regardless of profession or background—and it is not dependent on religious belief to be true.
Creativity is no more—and no less—than the ability to think in new and different ways.
Like any other skill, creativity can be cultivated, enlarged, and refined. It grows through practice, curiosity, and effort.
From Idea to Execution
Everything is created spiritually before it can be created physically.
Ideas come first. Execution follows—and execution requires the development of additional skills. Anyone can imagine a flying car, but without knowledge of engineering, mathematics, aerodynamics, fabrication, and countless other disciplines, the idea remains just that: an idea.
Creativity generates possibility. Skill makes it tangible.
This gap between imagining and executing is where many people mistakenly believe creativity ends—when in reality, it’s where growth begins.
Why Children Create Freely
This is why children appear so effortlessly creative. Their imaginations have no limits. They create spiritually, without inhibition or concern for feasibility.
Adults, on the other hand, are often creatively skeptical. Experience teaches us what we can’t yet do, and we become acutely aware of the skills we lack. This awareness can feel like a limitation—but it doesn’t have to be.
The development of skill doesn’t stifle creativity; it enables it.
Creativity as Collaboration
Some creative endeavors are best executed collaboratively. When individuals combine their talents, knowledge, and skills, they create something greater than any one person could alone.
This kind of cooperation mirrors creativity as it exists throughout the natural world.
Creativity Beyond Humanity
Creativity is so integral to our understanding of intelligence and identity that we even marvel at it in animals—like an orangutan using a stick as a tool to extract termites, or an ant colony working together to build, adapt, and overcome obstacles.
Creativity is not rare. It is fundamental.
Your Creative Contribution
Creativity is as varied as the world is populous. There is always room for new ideas—your ideas.
What is your big idea?
Have you developed the skills to bring it into the world?
Consider what the world would be like without the creativity of Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Mozart, Monet, or Leonardo da Vinci.
Now ask yourself:
What will the world lack without your creative contribution?
Everything that exists in this world does so because someone was creative. Creativity is that powerful.
Unfortunately too many people prescribe to the limiting believe that creativity has something exclusively to do with drawing ability or innate talent. This is the Myth of Creativity. Don’t believe it!
While being an artist is largely a creative endeavor and the capacity to be creative is something a person is born with, thankfully it is a capacity that lives with in all human beings, not just artists. It is a divine endowment to all God’s children. It is not something dependent on a person’s religious beliefs either.
The truth is, everyone is creative in some capacity or another. Creativity can be developed. Like all talents, it is a skill that can be, cultivated, enlarged and honed. Creativity is no more or less than the ability to think in new and different ways.
Everything is created spiritually before it can be created physically. It’s the execution or production of those ideas that requires the development of additional skills. For example, anyone can think of something like a flying car, but without the knowledge and understanding of a variety of different fields such as engineering, mathematics, aerodynamics, welding and fabrication, and a plethora of others I’m sure I’m missing, it would be another endeavor altogether to build such an invention.
This is why children are so creative. There are no limits to their imaginations. Children create spiritually, with no inhibitions. It is the development of skills that allows us to create physically. That is why adults are far more creatively skeptical. Adults recognize this discrepancy or the lack of skill.
Some creative endeavors are best executed as a collaborative effort. This kind of cooperation combines the talent, knowledge and skill of multiple individuals into a greater whole.
Creativity is such an integral part of our human identity that we marvel at signs of creativity in animals. Like the orangutan that uses a stick as a tool to extricate termites from their colony. Or the collaborative efforts of an ant colony to build and to overcome obstacles.
Creativity is as varied as the world is populous. There is always room for more ideas, new ideas. What’s your big idea? Have you developed the skills to execute it?
Think of what the world would be like with out the creativity of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Motzart, Monet, Davinci or a plethora of others. What will the world lack without your creative contribution?
