You’re not “not creative.” You just haven’t found the medium that clicks yet. Keep trying different ones.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Creative ability is not one switch that is either on or off in a person. It shows up unevenly across materials, and the material matters more than people admit. Someone hopeless with a pencil can be remarkable with sound, or with food, or with the layout of a room. Deciding you lack the whole thing after failing at one version of it is a bad conclusion.

Try three unfamiliar materials over the next three weekends, one each. Clay, a cheap recorder, a sewing machine, a free beat-making app, a camera. You are not looking for talent, only for the one where an hour disappears without you checking.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Have you tried enough different mediums to rule yourself out?

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