Creativity is a skill. 

It’s the skill of making connections, finding analogies and metaphors, and putting information across in a new and interesting way. 

But it doesn’t have to be a completely unique from-scratch thing no one has ever seen before. 

It just has to be fresh, and you can get fresh by combining, interpreting, and reframing existing stuff in a new way.

And you get good at it if you practice. 

There are exercises and everything to help you get better at it. 

Almost no one knows this.

Most people think creativity is a talent. 

You’re either born that way, or you’re not – is the mistaken assumption of the uncreative masses.

So just a bit of dedicated practice – a small amount of effort – and the people around you will begin to think of you as a genius. 

They will maybe even call you one. 

Brilliant is a word people will apply to you with regularity.

But listen – here is the best part. 

Because everyone believes creativity is an inborn talent, because they feel their own creativity is fickle and fleeting or otherwise nonexistent – you don’t have to hit a home run every time.

If you search for Claude Monet’s Japanese Footbridge and waterlilies paintings, you’ll see that he painted the same scenes repeatedly.

They are different partly because he suffered a mental illness that changed his perspective.

X-Rays and other scanning methods have revealed paintings, drawings, and notes under some of the most famous works of art.

This shows that the people we think of as the most creative also stopped, changed, or recreated their work.

One sculptor even smashed his work once completed because he didn’t think it was good enough.

Being creative is a matter of practice.

Sure, some initial innate skill might be needed, but if you’ve ever watched kids at play, you’ll see that they are all naturally inventive and creative.

So were you at the same age.

That skill is still inside you, just waiting to be released.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S.  The problem that most of us have is that we want to create the perfect blog post, the perfect book, the perfect video, or even the perfect email.

When what we produce doesn’t turn out to reach that level of perfection, we quit.

We say, “I’m not good enough”, or “I can’t do it”.

Guess what?

You don’t have to produce the perfect anything.

What you do have to do is embrace the imperfections and do the best you can each time.

The more to do, the better you’ll get.

It will never be perfect, and that’s OK.

When a bell is cast, there is always an imperfection in the writing or image because the makers know there will always be something imperfect.

They want to ensure that they control where the imperfection is.

When you learn to embrace your imperfections, you are freed up to produce your best work and share it.

Begin the journey here. https://burtm10.systeme.io/imperfect.