Creating

‘Creativity’ is one of those buzzwords that gets thrown around again and again to the point where the word has somewhat lost its meaning along the way.

What truly is creativity?

Erwin McManus describes creativity in The Artisan Soul as “taking something from the imagination and turning it into a reality.”

It’s such a simple concept, yet I personally have never looked at it that way before.

I always felt like it had to be some overcomplicated, emotionally driven task that only certain “creative” people felt compelled to do.  Even though I place high importance on creativity in my life, I have too many times undermined my ability to create and degraded the importance being creative in this world in general.

But this book made me realize the high value and importance of creativity and utilizing our imaginations. Too often it is assumed that imaginations are only for kids.  Something that disappears a little bit more with each and every day that we live.

However, I don’t believe that as our age increases our imaginations decrease, but rather it is like an origami paper folded smaller and smaller and shoved further and further into the bottom of the filing cabinet in the archives of our brains.

I just keep thinking about that SpongeBob episode where he is searching through filing cabinets in his brain.