March 2008
11 posts
Motivation Monday: Seeing what others don't.
Searching for creative motivation or inspiration? Each Monday you can find all of the creative insight you need right here at Creative Something, with “Motivation Monday”.
A true creative genius can take a normal, everyday object, and make others see it in a new, more beautiful or intelligent way.
Cindy, or Cinnamon (as she is known to the online photography world), is a true...
Six of the biggest delusions about creativity.
As a creative professional, I am constantly confronted with misconceptions about creativity. From other creatives complaining that they are not as creative as I am, to school teachers trying to convince me that creativity is illogical, delusions about creativity are everywhere.
Here are some of the biggest delusions about creativity that I am constantly rebutting to others:
Creativity...
A creative challenge to change your perspective.
Michael Michalko once wrote: “What… Copernicus [and] Darwin really achieved was not the discovery of a new theory, but a fertile new point of view.”
People often don’t understand that something as simple as a change of perspective has played a key factor in some of the world’s greatest discoveries. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, Freud’s...
Motivation Monday: Forgetting what you've been...
Searching for creative motivation or inspiration? Each Monday you can find all of the creative insight you need right here at Creative Something, with “Motivation Monday”.
Despite what you have been taught: there is not always a right way and a wrong way to everything. I’ve written about it before (look at sin 5), and for today’s motivation Monday I want to share a...
10 of the greatest web sources for creative...
Have you ever sat in front of a blank computer screen, or empty piece of paper, or a really white whiteboard, and wished you had some source of inspiration to help you with your creativity?
If you have ever taken an art class, or worked as a designer, or just tried creating something, you have - without a doubt - experienced creativity block (like writers block, only for creativity). I know I...
Motivation Monday: What is creativity?
Searching for creative motivation or inspiration? Each Monday you can find all of the creative insight you need right here at Creative Something, with “Motivation Monday”.
According to world-renown design strategist Andy Rutledge, creativity is: “…never having to say you’re sorry. Yes, just like love. In fact, like love, we must never judge or ridicule creativity. Creativity...
What defines a creative work of art?
“This is art?” I kept asking myself while walking through a small museum on the campus of Brigham Young University, five years ago.
My lack of understanding and creativity wasn’t rare at such a young age; in-fact: no matter what age you are, you probably see a painting or some type of work of art and sometimes wonder why it is considered “art”. It’s not...
Need new ideas? Just ask someone for them.
Henry Ford once proclaimed: “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”
What is more fulfilling than creative success; uncovering that new idea that changes everything, or solving that problem that has plagued you for countless nights?
With this little...
Motivation Monday: Think like a creative genius.
Searching for creative motivation or inspiration? Each Monday you can find all of the creative insight you need right here at Creative Something, with “Motivation Monday”.
A few weeks ago I recommend a few books for helping you boost your creativity, one of those books was “Cracking Creativity” by Michael Michalko. For this weeks Motivation Monday I want to share a...
Some of the best ways to stay creative in the...
We are all born with unbelievable creative capacities. As infants, new ideas become our lives, and through creativity we discover the huge world around us.
But as we grow older we are taught that there is almost always a right answer and a wrong answer to everything. In school we are instructed to solve problems by memorizing answers (2+2=4). As we grow older, we are educated out of our...
Creativity's secret weapon: relationships.
As a creative professional, finding a resource to help fuel my creativity or get a job done more successfully, is invaluable.
Over the past several years I have had the opportunity of discovering multiple resources that help the creative process; but no one resource has been as helpful and powerful as one that every single person has access to on a daily basis. There isn’t a single...