There’s only two ways of being in the world: you are either creative or you are blocked. This is because we are all creative, but most of us do not overcome the obstacles we need to face in order to create something. Each of us faces a certain level of resistance and adversity towards doing what we want to do. It’s ironic. You would think that if you were given all the resources to do what you want to do: time, money, anything, you would just get on and do it, right? But I ha

The reason why it’s so important to understand what creativity is in itself- a process, a movement, a dance of sorts- is because some people say they are not creative, or that they have no ideas or inspiration. Some artists themselves may sometimes allude to the lack of inspiration which arises from their creative blocks, and they may justify their own self sabotage by saying they are not inspired. This is just another excuse not to create, as there are many- myths that we ca

First, let’s define what we mean by artist. It’s important that this term doesn’t alienate you. Everyone is creative, everyone has an artist child inside, and the difference between being an artist or not is how much of that creativity is expressed, channelised and manifested. So, what do I mean by creativity? Let me start by defining this ever so complex, misunderstood term, or the way I would like us to think of creativity for the purpose of this book. Creativity is the pe

The point is we are all born creative. We are all born with the urge to mark make, speak, move, hide and seek, play. And all of these are impulses of the expression of our mind. At some point, some of us, lose the right to express ourselves creatively- we stop producing. We focus on consuming and our production becomes mindless- we do not express our mind, and yet we over identify with it, so much so that when we fear the expression of our mind may lead to criticism and rejec

Since childhood, we are asked to express our thoughts, and to talk. We are praised by our thoughts being made words. Words become the symbol of our evolution (at least for a couple of years as toddlers). Once we are able to speak, perh aps we may not be as encouraged, but our academic credit and our society places great importance on our words, and our sense of expression. We grow and we start expressing- babbling and mark making. If we are lucky, our mark making is also enco