Posted by: edmoli879 on: September 5, 2008
Ray Drossaert → 09.09.07 at 4:57 pm
Ah, creativity and inspiration…!
In addition to looking in new places to find inspiration, you could also turn it around: use your present skills in new situations (like using your chainsaw to create a sculpture). Most likely you’ll end up finding new ways to use those skills in your existing [...]
Posted by: edmoli879 on: September 5, 2008
Marty → 09.18.07 at 3:56 pm
Every person has a secret creative genius inside. Being creative is all about shedding inhibitions and seeking the lovely inner-voice which is ubiquitous to all human beings (whether they can sing or not )
The analogy holds true whether writing copy, painting pictures, sculpting marble, programming C#, crafting Cabernet, [...]
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Posted by: edmoli879 on: September 5, 2008
Sonia Simone → 09.09.07 at 2:39 pm
Great topic. It’s all very good and well for David Ogilvy to claim he hated creativity–he was a stunningly good (and ground-breaking, and yes, remarkable) copywriter. I *still* want to buy things based on 40-year-old ads of his.
You can safely “shun creativity” once you’ve learned not to be awful–a [...]