Re:Creativity Changes as We Age
by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday September 19, 2020 @03:19PM
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I'm 58, and find I don't have the creative fluidity I had when I was younger (I was an artist[0], and a musician[1] -with bad hair), but I find that I have a much more efficient and effective creative process.
Basically, my younger creativity was Jackson Pollock; splashing around a lot, with few boundaries, and my current creativity is a bit more like a scrimshaw artist; carefully making each line count, in a restricted and prescribed manner and medium.
A lot of the stuff I'm working on now, is stuff that just plain wouldn't have been possible -at all, when I was younger.
Basically, I have a great baseline for getting stuff done. I may not have the wild forest of creativity I once had, but what I imagine does actually end up existing, and at a pretty good quality level, and, sometimes, at a pretty sizable scope.
Basically, my younger creativity was Jackson Pollock; splashing around a lot, with few boundaries, and my current creativity is a bit more like a scrimshaw artist; carefully making each line count, in a restricted and prescribed manner and medium.
A lot of the stuff I'm working on now, is stuff that just plain wouldn't have been possible -at all, when I was younger.
Basically, I have a great baseline for getting stuff done. I may not have the wild forest of creativity I once had, but what I imagine does actually end up existing, and at a pretty good quality level, and, sometimes, at a pretty sizable scope.
[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/cruft/ArtistWithBadHair.jpg
[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/cruft/MusicianWithBadHair.jpg