“I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.”
Maynard James Keenan
Everyone has the ability to contribute something special to this world.
Unfortunately, most people never do.
Instead, they choose to live a mediocre life and allow other people to make their decisions, give them direction and tell them when to give up.
But why?
Why do they allow others to influence them in such a way that prevents them from ever doing anything special?
If every single person has their own unique set of genetics, experiences and attributes then every single person has something special and unique to give to the world right?
Then what’s the hold up? Why aren’t there more people being creative?
Something’s missing.
But what is it?
Is it a Chinese herb? A special dance? A magical word like homoglebin or sernafungal?
No, not quite. It’s something simpler than that.
The key ingredient to finding your creative spirit isn’t in a book or in your parent’s teachings or at the bottom of a cereal box.
It’s inside you.
And right now it’s waiting for you to stop fucking around and to start doing something meaningful with your life. It’s waiting for you to discover that all it takes is one simple change in your mindset for you to understand your true potential and the power that lies within.
OK. But what is it?
It’s you. The real you. Not the fake impostor that claims to be you.
It’s not the person that worries about their status or clings to their possessions or defines their beliefs based on what other people say.
It’s the person that comes out when they’re with their closest friends or alone in the car with their favorite music playing. The raw and inspired creative genius that can design solutions to problems or entertain crowds of people or inspire others to make a change themselves.
That’s the person the world needs to see and that’s the person you need to be.
How do I find that person?
“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”
Joyce A. Myers
Write. Record a video. Sing a song.
Do something to express yourself in a way that you’re not normally used to.
Whatever you do, do it for yourself. Don’t do it for all the would-be critics in your head that you think might put you down or think poorly of you.
Only by expressing yourself freely will you be able to find out who you truly are. So fuck everyone else and their opinions.
The world is a scary place and the easiest thing for most people is to do whatever it takes to fit in. But fitting in is a wasted effort and a meaningless existence.
There’s no time for fitting in anymore. It’s a fruitless ambition in an ever-changing world. So do yourself and everyone else a favor.
Take Oscar Wilde’s advice.
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
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