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Creativity is a choice, it’s not a bolt of lightning from somewhere else.
The practice is not the means to the output, the practice is the output, because the practice is all we can control.
The Bhagavad-Gita says, “It is better to follow your own path, however imperfectly, than to follow someone else’s perfectly.”
When you choose to produce creative work, you’re solving a problem. Not just for you, but for those who will encounter what you’ve made.
It’s about throwing, not catching. Starting, not finishing. Improving, not being perfect.
Art is the generous act of making things better by doing something that might not work.
If you want to change your story, change your actions first.
The truth is simpler: If you want to be a leader, then lead. If you want to be a writer, then write.
Because creative people create.
When Elizabeth King said, “Process saves us from the poverty of our intentions,” she was talking about the fish.
“Deliberately. . . . When she found out she was going over people’s heads, she went further, deliberately, the truth is she went right over people’s heads.”
