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Learning To Approach Creativity One Approach At A Time
There are as many ways to approach creativity as creatives. As long as we learn, there is little to worry — or fight–about.
One of the most dramatic fights my partner and I ever had was over… making pizza from scratch. Oh yes, it was.
My Recipe
The fight was ridiculous but it originated in my incapability to improvise on something I wasn’t versed in. I had never made pizza from scratch, so I wanted to follow the recipe for the dough step by step. I am rather obsessive when it comes to this sort of thing. When I don’t know about something, I must learn everything there is to learn about it and execute it accurately. I become the least creative version of myself, which is a painful process I seem to naturally subject myself to whenever I feel ignorant about a topic.
In contrast, when it comes to fields I feel confident about, I love to improvise and change things, experiment and refine, question and refute if necessary. The more I know about something, the more creative I become. Personally, I believe this is the most functional, efficient approach — for me. Not everybody works this way, though. In fact, I’m not even sure many people do.