Flip the Script: Creativity is a Process
Day Ninety-four
Creativity is a Process
“My two cents about creativity is you need to start at zero, forgetting everything as if you don’t know squat. If you think you do you’re wrong. You’re starting and you think, “oh I know this worked and this last part I did,” but you don’t know. Brand new creativity. You have to start at not knowing which has to bring fear and anxiety and doubt and all of those things. I think that’s what the creative process should be. You should start over every time.” Ted Danson, actor
I love the Youtube clip when Ted Danson talks with Sam Jones on the Off Camera Show about his career and creativity. (Link is below)
He talks about how he usually has a breakdown before a project begins and after it ends. He talked about how fear, anxiety and doubts are all part of the creative process.
I agree.
Joy is definitely part of the creative process, and it is intermingled with other stuff like resistance or feelings of failure and doubts. It is one of the reasons that most creative people are intense, passionate people. Creative people feel things!
(Intensity has a range of loud, boldness to deep introspection and withdrawal.)
