Creativity is the midpoint between madness and practicality. It blends the ability to establish patterns between seemingly disconnected points with the ability to exist in a methodical, pressure-tested environment where you can duplicate results.
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Not so sure about the practical part of creativity. It is needed, yet much of mine is closer to madness and has no practical value at all. One reason I don’t create. After cleaning out mom’s house after she died, there was just so much she made or started or never started that was just debris. Creating seems to add more and well, maybe someday!
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I’m with you on the madness! Not gonna lie, it’s part of the fun!
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You have some crazy ideas of fun, my sexy young friend!!!
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I am admittedly odd! 😁
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laughing out loud!!!
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When I sorted my mom’s house it was FULL of UF-Os. I brought some back with me and have yet to get them re started!!
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“Creativity is the midpoint between madness and practicality” really resonates with me right now. I’m working on the second book in my astrology series and finding that sweet spot in the middle of the two extremes is a major challenge. Volume 2 is focused on health so I’m trying to lean practical, but then my brain comes back being all like “yes, but have you considered: demons”
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You articulate your thoughts so well.
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Thanks!
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🤔 Mmm!
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I’m with you on that concerning the drafting process, but the editing is where I try to make my stuff accessible to other perspectives.
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Yep. I’d probably write differently if it was just for me. I love strange sounds and made-up words–it’d be completely bizarre! 🤣
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I read that 6 or 7 times and it still made my head hurt. Creativity? Sounds more like scientific replication. Creativity seems more like the ability to deduce and then produce a desired productive outcome ie critical thinking. Figuring out how to repair the back gate, gathering the tools and executing the fix is creative as it involves the same process as a painter with a blank canvas. However, art in process is when technique vanishes. Evanescent is the singular word. Where the magic happens. Repeating a process after the same result is reproducibility, is it not? Not to split hairs, and I get the part about performing within boundaries, or constraints, but the magic happens in between broken and fixed, the “aha” moment when thought and work have come together. Maybe.
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Replication is harsher than I’d aim for. In my criteria, evoking similar feelings across multiple perceptions would be satisfactory.
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That still makes my brain hurt, but I’m positive it’s down to simple semantics. You’re driving for similar emotional reactions across varied demographics. As in this piece isn’t for any particular slice, but for as much of everyone as can be expected. At which point Meyers-Briggs kicks in and you know 25% +/-aren’t going to like it, so don’t sweat them.
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There’s always haters, which is fine. Mitzy Shore told her comedians that if everyone likes you, you’re stuck in small-time.
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It’s not so much about haters, there’s just that segment of the population that’s always going to be asynchronous. Which can be beat 1 to 1 but not over a large audience. It’s like the rule of large numbers. I don;t worry about it. It resonates where it resonates and that’s it
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Good way to be.
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So beautiful
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