I went to a panel discussion on Creativity. The panelists were a successful singer songwriter, an art critic, a guy who started a branding company, a guy who started a successful poster designer company, a genius 11 year old girl who took amazing pictures. and a dance company owner.
They were the creative ones in the room.
They told how they were creative and what it is like. It was pretty interesting except when they got to the part about how some jobs were not creative, they mentioned engineer, and plumber and service type jobs.
I did not say anything but just sat there taking it all in.
I disagree after thinking it over.
Saying you are a creative type and someone else is not is profoundly wrong. We are all creative, just in different ways.
Take my Mom for example. She would run away if you asked her to be in a creative group. She would run screaming away.
But she is profoundly creative. She makes soup that you would not believe. She starts with a recipe then leaves the pages behind and begins to improvise. Her soups have a taste that is so extraordinary and unique she could open a store and have a line out the door.
But she only makes them for her family. She can never give you the recipe because she alters everything so much each time that you never have the same soup twice. She is a soup genius.
Yet she would say she is not creative.
My husband can fix anything in the house and he never went to school to learn that. He generally eschews directions and rarely reads them yet he manages to be able to do anything doable without any guidance. He is creative in that way. He also can design structures that are so unique I am sure he could open a shop and do that for people.
My webmaster works all the time on my website designing new and interesting ways to make the site interesting. He is profoundly creative. His wife designs and sews projects for me that are absolutely wonderful.
Yet they call me the creative one. I am the artist.
I disagree. We all seem to have the same amount of creativity. We are creative because God is creative. It is His gift to us. Think about that today as you go about your incredibly creative life. Look for the genius in you.
thank you Shari. I do agree with you that we are all made to be creative. Everyone has situations in their life and problems that need creative solutions. You can’t always fix the plumbing the same way twice or settle an argument between your children or juggle a busy schedule. All of these things need thought, skill and a unique answer.