What role do others or external circumstances also play in this?.What do you contribute to creativity with your own personality, your own abilities, your own character and history, and your own imprints?.How do you produce (good and bad) results?.How do you direct the creative process? What exactly matters?.Twyla Tharp explains in her book what this means: And bring corresponding habits into the day. If you want to take creativity seriously, you will accept and consider it as part of your professional and/or private life. So too Twyla Tharp, choreographer by profession. At least that is what all reputable experts in this field say. In other words: work.įirst and foremost, work on and with oneself. Creativity, like so many things – sorry people – is simply: practicing and doing. Apart from that, there is little truth in the myth of creative genius. …a certain amount of talent should be helpful in doing creative work. Innate or somehow genetically predisposed. That creativity is at least a rare talent. “Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you’ll learn to do it better.” (Twyla Tharp)Įspecially in this country, we tend to believe in genius.
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