Staying Creative
We can fuel our brains with museums and study, but if your taste grows faster than your skills, that might turn you into a critic, rather than a creative. So, to flex our creative muscles outside work’s bounds, we need creative projects that don’t feel like a chore. The trick is to find fun projects! Maybe for you that means a competition, or something charitable in the service of others, or it combines several interests and will never see the light of day or public critique. I have dabbled in each of these project types over the last year, and while all of them challenged me, being free of themes and criteria and other people’s opinions is when I truly rediscovered the joy of making something that is 100% me and mine.