I don’t want to lose my creativity. I hope no one is taking it away because they’re angry at me.
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No one is taking it away from you. Creativity justs ebbs and flows. And when it ebbs it’s frustrating. But you’ll find it again
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I’ve read that creativity and intelligence peaks in your 20’s.
But Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says that as long as you keep at it you won’t lose it.
Prodigies that quit what they are good at just lose it.
As long as you keep working on it you won’t lose it.
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I lost my creative juice when I was around 20. It was very bad period. Now trying to regain it. I am double the age now. I have to win back a lot that I lost for past 20 years. I am not sure if it’s entirely possible. But will try.
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I was a lot more creative when I first came online in 1996, than I am now.
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Even great minds go through long periods of … let’s call it infertility. If it happens to the best of them, it can happen to anyone.
If you want to stay creative, avoid routine. Go places, read something different, subscribe to a few random youtube channels, make new acquaintances, try to learn a new language / craft, join a cause.
But yeah, eventually the well dries up. We can’t stay forever young, in a sense we trade adaptability for wisdom.
I can say witty things. Be verbally inventive. However it doesn’t stretch to writing a good poem or prose. I’m certainly a bit more pragmatic and a bit less idealistic than I was 20 years ago.
Nothing is new anymore. All millenials do is re-invent old movies songs and games
Originality is dead.
I was neither creative or intelligent in my 20s.
Exactly that.
Oh blah. Our parents were busy reinventing Will Shakespeare and the Bible. Riffing off the work of others is the world’s second oldest profession.
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Creativity comes and goes. Its normal.
Ive seen people describe it as exhaling - and you have to inhale a lot of experiences and feelings to be able to have enough to say in a song/painting/book etc.
I cant find the clip but Johnny Cash said something quite poetic about how he cant sit down and write a song. But if he goes on a walk on a sunny day, or has a pleasant experience with friends - it fills him. And he has to keep filling his cup with things to be able to pour it out in a song.
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Double post but Id also add that if after a break you feel the same - another thing that helps is to take a fresh approach. Work on something different than you normally do. Like writing music of a slightly different feel or genre than you have done, or pick out a small motif from a piece that already exists and try to tweak it into something completely new.
I’m not sure what you’re being creative is to you, but if you’re writing or making art the same applies.
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