Creativity for Those Who Were Told, and Believe, They are Not Creative

“I am not creative”.  Most of us say this because someone told us we were not creative: we can’t sing (means we can’t sing like an opera singer); we can’t paint (means we can’t paint like Rembrandt); we can’t write (means we can’t write like Shakespeare); I am not musical (because I can’t play like a rock star or in a symphony). What these people were doing was defining creativity as producing something tangible, having a product, with the emphasis on something perfect. In actual fact, their definition of creativity is wrong!!! Creativity is really the way we express, feed, and grow our soul; it is what helps us maintain our identity as human beings. It is a state of Being AND our relationship to the process of Beingness. It is the way we meet challenges, the way we bring a project to completion, the attitude and presence we bring…