More than an Artist: Why creativity shouldn’t be the core of your identity

How do you identify yourself when you meet new people?

Do you call yourself an artist? A singer? A musician? Is it one of the first things you mention when introducing yourself?

What we say about ourselves as artists says a lot about how much stock we put into our creative identity. You might be used to saying phrases like “If I wasn’t a creative, I don’t know what I do!”

That’s probably true of most of us creative people. Personally, I would have a hard time imagining life without music. I h...