Creative Evolution - Letting Your Creativity Flow Naturally Without The Feeling Of "Selling Out"

All of us who create have a few common traits and ambitions.

One of these is to evolve and improve ourselves through our creativity, to keep developing so we get better, become more true to our creative core or soul, go deeper, reach wider, and so on.

Can any truly creative person really be happy with simply creating a slightly different version of the same song / book / design over and over again, without taking a risk and trying a new angle, a different technique or a fresh creative form every now and again?

It’s natural and healthy as creative people to want to be on an upward spiral of our own personal creative evolution.

When this spiral of creative evolution begins to change from simply steadily moving onwards and upwards, into wanting every creative project to be an exquisitely perfect work of unparalleled creative genius, that’s where the problems occur.

When this happens, instead of creating freely and letting the work take shape in its own unique way, we try to mould it in directions it doesn’t really want to go.

We may find negative thoughts starting to gather in our head, like:

“I must create in this way, it’s how it should be. If this creative project doesn’t end up EXACTLY as I envisioned it from the start then I’m a creative failure. If it turns out differently to what I committed to making it become, then it must mean I’m weak, a creative charlatan, and a sell out.”

Strong words. How often have you heard them in your thoughts?

How often have you felt this way about your creativity? That by not following the original plan for a creative project that in some way you’re selling out or letting yourself down?

In fact the opposite is true.

If we insist on following a creative project through to the (bitter) end, steering it in ways it can’t really go, we’ll end up with a deformed offspring. Added to this, because the project is not evolving as it would like to, it starts to die, and decay.

So what we’re left with looks something like a bag of rotten mangoes forced through a keyhole. With a sledgehammer.

So what’s the alternative?

The crucial point here is to understand and accept that letting a creative project or piece of art evolve in the ways it wants to is good for our creativity.

It shows our confidence, our maturity, and our good sense. It shows that by listening to ourselves and trusting at each stage that we’ll do what’s best for the piece of work - even if that’s far from our original vision – we understand how creativity works and we’re not afraid of letting it find it’s own unique expression.

Remember the common basis for all of us who are creative:

We want to travel in an upward spiral of our own personal creative evolution. A major part of this is listening to ourselves and having faith in our good intentions for everything we produce, rather than being hung up on whether it’s perfectly as it we envisioned it at the start.

A strong creative vision as a starting point is valuable and powerful. But being open to our creative evolution, wherever that may takes us, is even MORE valuable...

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