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Thoughts, reflections, and musings on living creatively
by Doug Smith
The Creative Life Thrives On Peak Partnerships
It's not always a solo. You don't need to go it alone. Some of the greatest ouput from creative lives originated from peak partnerships: combinations of people that were geometrically more sensational than the sum of their parts. Think about the Beatles, the Marx Brothers, Rogers and Hammerstein, Conin and Greene, The Curies, Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippin, Burns and Allen -- lots of great partnerships involving connections and complimentary augmentated amplifications that can not be explained. It's as if by magic.
There have been people in my life who have co-created great partnerships. When we've worked together I have felt a sense of greater capacity, limitless potential, great creative possibilities and outstanding actions. Art in motion.
These people, who have been close friends as well as complimentary partners help to make work feel like play.
What great creative partnerships are you developing?
Your Masterpiece Is Ready To Begin
There's a reason you are creative. There's a purpose to your hopes, desires, to your creative impulse. There's a mission behind your drive to feel, act, and live more creatively. That reason, purpose, and mission involves creating great works.
Tp create a few great works you have got to create in volume. Crank it up and crank it out. Fill your life with drafts and versions. Create constantly. You've got to get things thru the pipeline and see how they fly. You've got to commit to a direction and fill it with your output. What is it that you do and how can you creatively do more of it?
Sooner or later you can keep calling yourself creative but you'll eventually want to know with certainty -- as will your friends, family, and associates -- what it is you bring to the creative table. What is your creative product and how do you create more of that?
You create more by constantly creating. Find ways to make new artifacts, new articles, new art in action, new evidence of your gifts. Ask yourself "What will I create today?" and then build on that toward "What will I create today that is brilliant, wonderful, compassionate and courageous? Find things around you that seem pedestrian, common, or uninteresting and change them now. Recreate the mundane into the magnificent. Express your fullest creativity each and every moment by making new things and by making things new.
Your masterpiece is ready to begin -- it just might look a little rough right now...
Your Creativity Grows More Creativity
Creativity is a shared resource. We are not in a competition over the last drop of creativity because the more creative we are, the more access we have to even more creativity.
Creativity breeds creativity. It sparks more ideas, more energy, more flow by liberating ideas from limitations and connecting people with their dreams. Fully realized, creativity drives a bright and wonderful, endless source of connection.
When you create, you ignite more connections and the beauty, practicality, and pleasure of those connections invite an even greater creative response.
The more creative we are, the more open we are to our own creativity, the more we open other people up to creativity as well. Creativity grows more creativity. It's a great and awesome gift.
The Creative Life: Part one, Part Two
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Updated 18 May 2007 | Copyright 2007 Doug Smith