

Paul Budnitz is the founder and president of Kidrobot. The place where the toys of your dreams are made and sold (some results many vary). I ran across this post of his while reading his blog.
"Being creative has nothing to do with your mind. The mind exists to judge, to criticize -- because it's a survival organ, the mind's primary function is to make sure we're safe, to judge if that yellow blob over there is a scary lion or a broken bulldozer. The mind can't deal with uncertainty, and being creative is always, always putting yourself in the land of the uncertain. To the untrained mind that's equivalent to walking into traffic blind. The prospect of something new, something that arrives out of nowhere is intrinsically terrifying to our egos.
There is no place for the mind during the process of actually creating things. We take advantage [of] our minds later, at the end of the process, to evaluate if what we have made is beautiful, ugly, scary, worthwhile, or might land us in jail.
Learning to become perpetually creative is nurturing the habit of getting our mind out of the way. Writer's block is just a habit. The amazing thing about human beings is that we can nurture new habits. We can retrain ourselves to create differently."
words to take to heart. not easy though. i think i'll reference this thought often when i feel i can't write. sometimes you have to turn off all the issues and all the rules and all the drama and just create.
especially the rules!
then if you feel the need, there is always the post-create self-edit?
5 comments:
love the idea of the post-create self-edit...stevie nicks once said, "a woman should never reveal everything"....and i think that is true in this case too...somethings SHOULD remain private...haha. i liked what he had to say though, the mind will just cause you to doubt what you are trying to say, sing, create, paint, etc...the heart will lead you astray, yes, but if you follow it through...it could be beautiful...
I know what that means to me. I never used to write because I doubted myself and once my teacher made me and then told me she liked it, I never stopped even though some have tried to make me.
it is often difficult to allow emotions to overpower the mind - and more often than not emotions allow us to explore who we can be - hopefully we both can really let our emotions play and put the mind in the closet for awhile :)
Wow, he really said it right. What he said was really freeing-like we are all trying to stay in this box of what we call creativity, but that defeats the whole purpose doesn't it. I like this guy and I bet his toys are really cool. =)
Thanks for the sympathy! Yeah, we definitely will never go that route again. I know I was telling them they really didn't want to have to talk to my husband, but it actually got resolved in a calm matter. Needless, to say I am looking forward to Sam being home and dealing with crazy stuff like that, because he has "the gift" and I do not. =) Hope all is well in AZ! =)
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