When a person first starts coming up with something truly new, what often shows up is primal, almost animalistic fear.
Creative force can feel erratic and threatening but what's it's trying to do is to get you unstuck.
There is no controlling it; from this point on, there

The image below is not AI-generated. It was painted by a prominent Italian futurist artist Benedetta almost 100 years ago, in 1933, and has a mysterious title 'Synthesis of Aerial Communications'.

This esthetic is currently making a comeback in digital art, design, and beyond,

Weekend creeps in, with all kinds of invitations 'to hang' (potluck, netflix...) but in the end, you're the only one who can prevent your time from being squandered. Draw a protective circle or a bubble around you - that painting is not going to paint itself 👩‍🎨

Working for a specific payoff is the reason why so many people find themselves stuck in being “not creative enough”.

Our limited notions of what we can produce are often rooted in desire for social approval on one side of the scale and desire to break away on the other. This

One uncomfortable truth is how unpredictable creative field is, even for more established players. You can never become a master, really, because there is always more to learn.

After 10+ years of hard work, it becomes even more difficult to accept the mystery, the change and

A painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

One of the keys to increasing your creative output is aiming for completion, not perfection. Constantly fixing things and having unreachable standards results in internalized refusal to let

Everyone likes talking about biohacking and the next big supplement that will solve all the problems but one of the best things that I discovered in recent years was intuitive eating.

My issue was that my weight would fluctuate quite a bit, 30 lbs in a span of a few months, and

Simone de Beauvoir, asked about her extremely hard-working, highly disciplined creative habits, which involve:

+ 2-3 months of vacation per year
+ Starting work at 10am, and going until 1pm, then taking a four hour break for friends
+ She does work in the evening, but she also

To have a consistent creative output over a period of time, it takes more enthusiasm than discipline.

Enthusiasm is not merely a heightened emotional state, but an expression of both commitment and vulnerability, an unwavering resolve to engage with the practice, no matter how

As Jackson Pollock once said, “The painting has a life of its own, I try to let it come through”.

So when people mention that they are not creative, what they often mean is that they have a hard time getting past an inner Censor. “Creating” turns into thinking something up, and

Many artists I worked with explored IFS (Internal Family Systems) in therapy or coaching at least once - but what's so fascinating is that there is often a common pairing of a 'creative child' and either supportive or restrictive/indifferent parent.

Creative child

Creative

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Recently, I’ve been fascinated by a growing phenomena of “Sunday painter”, or someone who, constrained by the demands of their day job, business and/or childcare, reserves their creative pursuits for a handful of hours over the weekend.

While this expression may carry notions