Everyone Can Be a Creative/Everyone IS a Creative

Creativity doesn’t always produce a signature result.

Photo by Huynh Nguyễn on Unsplash

I’ve been writing books since I was 9 years old. Go to Amazon and you can see my growing list of self-published works.

Writing is my primary source of creativity. But it’s not my only source. For example, when my wife and I married back in 2015, I designed and constructed our chuppah to look like the TARDIS from Doctor Who. I’ve built multiple bucklers — small shields we use in medieval fencing. I’ve taken some amazing photos, done some graphic art, even tried my hand at drawing a time or two.

All these created signature results can be shared with the world. I’ve always relished being a creative and love finding new ways to express that. Yet being a creative doesn’t mean you produce a signature result like a book, painting, sculpted figure, or what-have-you.

Everyone can be a creative. Unfortunately, many people, concepts, and notions discourage people from realizing this.

Creativity in the everyday

I recently had the opportunity to share my thoughts on this topic with a broad audience. Granted, that broad audience was in Australia, in the middle of the night, but we still got callers to the show when I talked to on-air…