We Overcomplicate Creativity

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We are complicated beings. Prime example — let’s imagine it’s 3pm, I’m starving because I have now skipped lunch, but back to the wall, I still wouldn’t be able to tell you what I want for lunch. I just know I need to eat.

The same happens with how we show up for our creativity. For a long time, I would know that I was starving as a creative, but I would lose myself in decision fatigue, being guided by other people’s appetite (or opinions) of when we should or shouldn’t eat, or I would overindulge in something that only pretended to nourish me. (Social media, the fast food of creativity.)

We just need to eat though. We just need to nourish ourselves and our creativity. We need to strive for action over perfection. There’s a simplicity to strive for when working on creative endeavors, and it’s known as showing up.

I say we overcomplicate creativity but really what I mean is that our fear overcomplicates what creativity needs to be. For those who can equate hunger for food to hunger for creativity, you know that a well written screenplay, a well executed TikTok, or a peace giving catalogue of music can give you just as much of a high as writing the best piece of work of your life. Our hunger is satisfied by consuming creativity, not just by expelling it.