Musings on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Tuesday, November 30, 2004How to be Creative
Being creative sounds fun. So, I clicked through on a posting by Renee Hopkins Callahan at IdeaFlow titled How to be Creative. She, in turn, points to a manifesto by Hugh MacLeod that made it past her spam filter into her email inbox. Like Renee, I couldn't stop reading the thing. Good stuff. Funny stuff. Here are some of my favorite bits:
Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifice always hurts more than you think it's going to...It's NOT doing it when you know you full well HAD the opportunity--that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The most important thing a creative person can learn, professionally, is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do...Knowing where to draw the red line is like knowing yourself, like knowing who your real friends are. Some are better at it than others. Life is unfair.
It's all about thriving in markets that are smarter and faster than you are.
The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
Nobody cares. Do it for yourself.
To me, it's about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth.
Put your whole self into it, and you will find your true voice. Hold back and you won't. It's that simple.
Any act of creation is hard, and is due respect. All creations will ultimately fail in order to make room for the next. It's the journey. Where do you want to go?
Related: A Path with a Heart
