HOW TO BUILD YOUR CREATIVE CONFIDENCE
Today I am going to tell you about creative confidence. In order to continue let me take you to a journey of my school.
One
day my friend Amit was working on a
project. He was using a piece of clay which our teacher kept inside the sink in
chemistry lab.
He
was making a horse with that clay and he was emotionally dedicated to that. At
once one of the girl who was sitting at his table after seeing what he was
doing leaned over and said to him "That’s terrible !!! That doesn't look
anything like a horse .... L”.
My
friend Amit looked at the horse with
emotional intensity and threw it back in the dustbin. I have never seen Amit doing project like that ever again.
He never did things like that just because he was judged badly .This feeling
swept out the creative part from his life.
I
wonder how often that happens. When I
told this story to some of my friends, a lot of them told me about their
similar experiences.
How
a teacher shut them down and how a student was particularly cruel to them. They
some kind of opt out as thinking of themselves creative at that point. I see
that opting out that happens in childhood and it moves in and becomes more
miserable by the time you get to your adult life. So we see a lot of this.
Later
on when they are asked to do something creative, they say "we are not the creative type ". But
we know that's not true. If they stick with the process and they stick with it,
then there will be end of doing amazing things. They sometimes surprise
themselves just how creative they really are .....
I
have been looking at the fear of judgement that we generally have and we afraid
doing new thinks just because we are going to be judged. If we don't say the
right creative thing then we are going to be judged.
If
somehow you are a thought leader at some point in your life . I ask you to
didn’t let people divide the world in categories of creative and non-creative,
like some god gifted things. And to have
people realise that they are naturally creative. And those natural people
should let their ideas fly and they can do what their ideas ask them to do and
I call it ‘self-efficacy’.
I
really believe that when people gain this confidence and when we see it all the
time, they start working on things that are really important in their lives. We
see people quit what they are doing now and go to new directions and we see
them come up with more interesting ideas and they just make better decisions.
I
see this life to be lived only once and you are not creative just because
others make fun of your creative art. I have a theory in my head which says
people appreciate when you achieve success. Getting success by following you
own creative idea is a special success for me and for everyone in this world.
That’s
what I want you all to be. I don’t want anyone to be next Amit Mehra.
I want everyone to be special kind of creative
genius who has his own ideas to work upon. I will love if you share your
creative theory or idea right here. I will be more delightful if you share your
own story of chemistry lab creativeness and your personal experience regarding this
world of creativeness.
Now I ask you all to draw conclusion for me. I
will love to read your conclusions and creative ideas.
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