We’re beyond fortunate to have built a community of some of the most creative artists, professionals, and entrepreneurs in the world and one of the most important questions we ask them is around keeping one’s creativity alive. Below, we’ve highlighted some of those responses.
Bethany Hicks
Creativity is a funny thing. One day you can have it and the next you don’t. I think that that’s perfectly normal. I think stressing over creativity just makes it worse. One of the things I try to do that I’ve noticed helps foster creativity is not focusing all my creative energy in one place. I do photography for a living, so I take days off from shooting or planning shoots. There are some weeks I’m more focused on my blog trying to help others understand the basics of photography or help my clients make decisions. This gives my brain a rest and it keeps me productive in my business. Read more>>
Alejandro Badillo
Hello and thank you for reaching out to me and giving me this opportunity. Definitly been creative has helped me alot on starting my bussines and coming up with new ideas. To try to the keep my creativity alive and coming up with new ideas, I like to walk around my neighborhood for Denver where theres alot of art studios and see all the diferent styles and art that people come up with, that keeps me fresh and open minded to all the diferent things that people have come up with and ideas that I can make. Read more>>
Michael Sullivan
I keep my creativity alive by reading and watching the content of people that tend to operate at a high level of authentic creativity via TikTok, Youtube, and Instagram. Reading has helped me to become disciplined, as well as train my mind to focus on one thing at a time, which has expanded my way of thinking. Watching creators keeps me evolving and remaining in a creative space, but I realize that watching others has to be done with caution. Read more>>
Max Diaz
Keep your eyes and mind just as open as your thoughts. everything we see influences us one way or another, sometimes a good piece of art or writing you make can have one specific meaning to you based on what you’re exposed to but a whole other perspective to someone else. always be present and think of things no one has seen before Read more>>
Alejandro Chávez
Good question! Keeping creative, that is the best part of being a comic book artist. Films, music, video games and traveling are my main inspirations. I love watching movies everyday, especially from the 1980s, what a stylish decade for cinematography! Antoher important aspect in my life is being curious, I love learning about different topics from fashion to science. Read more>>
Taylor Richards
Being in a business where I sell things that I create, I find it important to keep separate creative hobbies that are not involved with the business. I used to offer a bit of each of my creative outlets in my business until I realized I was just making what sells and had no enjoyment in the process anymore. I decided to stop selling those things and only create them in my free time as way to get that explorative urge out. In turn, my creativity flows a bit easier and inspiration for my pieces comes more naturally. Read more>>
Marisa Mays
2013 I was on on a camping trip in Los Angeles Ca, Dockweiler State Beach. I met a guy name Norm who was these selling Bright Magical Lights. My purpose began. 2013 I was on on a camping trip in Los Angeles Ca, Dockweiler State Beach. I met a guy name Norm who was these selling Bright Magical string lights that he would weave around each spoke. It looked magical, it gave a dark bicycle instant colorful lighting that could be seen from hundreds of feet. Read more>>
Ash T
As an actor, I always have to be thinking on the creative plane to expand my imagination. But it can be rather elusive at times and can come through in fits and bursts. I’ve delved into this question often and have a few techniques that help me, especially when I’m feeling slothful or lackadaisical. Read more>>
Quinnita Faith Edwards
When you’re a kid, creativity and imagination come as naturally as breathing. It’s not something that you have to think about, it’s just something that you do – no hesitations, no restraint, no second guessing. You just pick up a stick, and suddenly you’re a wizard with their wand, riding a dragon up to Mars. Read more>>
Angelica Ramos
The beauty about creativity is that it can be entirely anything you want it to be. If we can find the beauty in the little things that we do daily, our natural creative nature will always be alive. For example, simply choosing what to wear that day and deciding what you find comfort and confidence in that day is just a small portion of our natural creativity. But, beyond that, from the way we decide how to decorate our lives whether in the literal sense with home decor or even just being able to surround ourselves with people who bring out the best in us, there will always be sparks of creativity. Read more>>
Surpass Flavor
I don’t know if it’s keeping it alive as much as it is allowing it to happen. When I started writing lyrics again, I was amazed at how much material flowed out of me, it was like a faucet. And what changed? The only change I made was allowing it to happen. (And a few dope instrumentals helped too.) Read more>>
Wariss (Preferred as Ice “Icy Boii”) Suriya
I was born talented. But never been involved in any club about my talents. I was autistic of being difficult myself. When I watched WWE on television, I thought celebrities were not real. But it was real, in my own eyes. I wish I could meet them in person, but I could not make it. Until I decided to attend WWE Event in California. Read more>>
Erik Nakai Buckley
Creativity has been tricky for me, and still sometimes is, so I try to address it from multiple directions.
I try to indulge my creative desires. Creativity begets creativity. I like to create the space and set aside the time to work on projects that tap deeper into my creativity. Some weeks, that looks like dabbling in a facet of my silversmithing craft that isn’t yet in my repertoire. Other weeks, it may be crafting Native-style wooden flutes, spending time taking photographs, or trying silverpoint drawing. Read more>>
