I realized today while I was sitting on the back deck that I was at the change of tide. I go through these periods where everything is going out from me. I'm teaching or I'm singing (or I'm teaching singing...) or I'm going to schools. Then it switches. I'm home, I'm reading, I'm creating.
I'm good with either of those phases. I need both in my life. It's the changing from one to the other that is always a struggle for me. Picture pig on ice (which would be a great photo to include here except we don't have ice).
It brought to mind this list called Paradoxes of Creativity which I have found very enlightening:
To create, a person must
Have knowledge but forget the knowledge
See unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder
Work hard but spend time doing nothing
Create many ideas yet most of them are useless
Look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different
Desire success but learn how to fail
Be persistent but not stubborn
Listen to experts but know how to disregard them
I got the list from Roger von Oech at blog.creativethink.com but he got it from Michael Michalko, somewhere else. I hope you find it useful, too.
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