I never cease to be amazed at how some people are very creative, particularly those of artistic bent.
When I was in New Zealand recently I spotted this sculpture of a horse. “So, what’s smart about the sculpture of a horse?” I hear you ask.
Well for starters it’s not something that anybody, at least me, can do. Ask me to do a sculpture of a horse and you’ll have a block of marble reduced to chips with an undiscovered horse inside them. (If you don’t get my reference to the undiscovered horse I’d remind you that Michelangelo was asked how he created the statue of David. Well, he said, “David was in the marble all the time so I just chipped away the bits from the marble that weren’t him.”)
And, secondly, when you look at the photo of the horse very closely, you’ll see it’s made from old horseshoes and I simply ask myself who was smart enough to think of doing it that way.
Certainly not me! I thought you nailed horse shoes to the front of your farmyard barn, assuming you have a barn that is!
However, having suggested I’m not at all creative, I must admit that inside me (and you too) there are always creative ideas wanting to get out. They are locked away in the marble, so to speak, and probably there lurks a self-imposed belief that we can never chip them out because we’re not creative.
But that’s not true!
Certainly, creative people may be born but many are made.
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I recall listening to the Creative Director of an advertising agency who said he was no more creative than anybody else in the agency. It was just that because he had the title of Creative Director he had to come to work every day and be creative.
I suppose it’s confirmation of the well-known belief that we become what we think about. If, instead of complaining we are not creative we kept on telling ourselves we are creative, we too could become very, very creative.
In my next article, I’ll share some very simple ideas on how to become more creative. It’s all about getting out of the rut that most of us travel in every day.
And, as they say, a rut is just a coffin with the sides kicked out.
Get out of that coffin… work to become more creative! Find out more soon.
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