Everyone is Born Creative

09/30/2009

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

"Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten," writes Hugh MacLeod in Ignore Everybody And 39 Other Keys to Creativity (New York: Portfolio, 2009). He continues...

"Then when you hit puberty they take away the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creativity bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back please.'

"So you've got the itch to do something. Write a screenplay, start a painting, write a book, turn your recipe for fudge brownies into a proper business, build a better mousetrap, whatever. You don't know where the itch came from, it's almost like it just arrived on your doorstep, uninvited. Until now you were quite happy holding down a real job, being a regular person.

".... That wee voice didn't show up because you decided you need more money, or need to hang out with movie stars. Your wee voice came back because your soul somehow depends on it. There's something you haven't said, something you haven't done, some light that needs to be switched on, and it needs to be taken care of. Now.

"So you have to listen to the wee voice or it will die... taking a big chunk of you along with it. They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in kindergarten, why fear them now?"

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