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Refresh Your Creativity
Give something new to the world
As a young man, my dreams were about art — things like working with wood, making music, writing, or drawing a beautiful picture. But when I tried, I failed. I believed creativity was not part of who I am.
I put the idea on a shelf in my mind and carried on. The world continued to turn, and family life became the top priority, and I loved it. But something else called.
I still had dreams bouncing around my mind. The desire to make something new and put it out there grew inside me.
Time passed, and, as often happens, my joyful bubble burst. I felt depressed, but life went on. I heard the call and knew I wanted to do different things. I and I searched for the reason I could not.
The search yielded promising results. The information I found pointed to what I hoped. Creating is hard-wired into the human brain. The news changed my perspective and made me a believer.
Creativity equals survival
John Anderer, in his article on human creativity, tells us those “aha” moments we all experience activate the reward center in the human brain. Speaking about new ideas, John says, “They reward us in the same way as delicious food, addictive substances, and sexual pleasure.”
