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How Are Kindness, Compassion, and Creativity all Interlinked?
Creatives have used kindness and compassion across all of history to tell their stories.
Why do creatives create?
I believe it’s because we have vision, passion, and energy inside of us that we need to share. It’s a compulsion not unlike breathing. You put the words on the page or screen, ink or paint on the canvas, clay on the wheel, circuits and gears together — and something new comes into being.
Everyone can create. While it’s not always glamorous, super-original, or in any way earth-shattering, you still create things regularly.
Unlike many other industries, there tends to be less competition in creative and artistic pursuits. There’s judgment, of course — but that’s not the same as competition.
I know that I am one of hundreds, if not thousands of sci-fi and fantasy authors out there. But since we each have our own take on tropes and unique story ideas, we’re not in competition with one another.
This is also true of painters, sculptors, fabric artists, cartoonists, and other artists and creators. Even in acting, where there’s competition to land roles, it’s still a collaborative effort and not the same type of competition.
