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For the Love of Creativeness

Assessing ourselves through our creative process

By Avontè PaytonPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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For People who want to work on their creativity and learn more about themselves.

As a musician, I have had so many different experiences with music that I feel there are some ideas that could explain why i love the music that I do, and hopefully you can pull some ideas too and figure out more about who you are.

Creativity (a mental practice) is unique for everyone...mostly because, given everyone's perception of live, we all experienced different forms of someone else's creativity that pulled in your attention and caught your liking. Since everyone has their own way of creativity, wouldn't it be more interesting if you could learn about your creative process and how it has evolved over the years from childhood?

Has your parent ever told you a story of a time when you did something as an infant (or a time you couldn't remember as a child) that signified what your biggest interest are. Take some time and think about those kind of stories and apply it to what your interested in now. What's similar? What's different. How has your interests changed over the years?

Every time I write a song, I look at what I wrote and study the little details that i find most interesting. When we create something from an internal motivation that satisfies us, we should take a second and study what you created. It's like looking inside your mind and seeing some of the things that drive you to be who you are.

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We look at creativity everyday. We look at everything that was created by someone else's creative process. Buildings, electronics, or even businesses formed from an idea are what make up this existence and the way it is. Our interests causes us to mentally function different than the other person, which is why when two minds come together, you add on all the interests and combine them into something with more possible potenial or something that doesn't really serve a purpose, but it's your perception of it and what it can do.

Every piece of our though process has evolved from some event in your past, especially the events where you were able to see detail in something that you can emotionally relate to. Assessing those memories helps you to understand more about your creativity and where it's at in your view. Eventually, you should see more of how you can apply your growing creative skills to your desired profession.

This is why people say that creativity is a big mess most of the time, and it's because you are using what you know and what you've learned from the outside forces of your past to put an idea together that can change lives. All creativity is inspired of someone else's piece that has creativity in your eyes.

Everyone is a natural born creater. People can create things that will make sense to them and only them, but helps them with who they are. Try creating something and let your mind run as free as possible, see where it takes you. Whenever you're by yourself, try thinking out loud through verbal actions or physical actions. Let your mind be free with whatever you think about. Lose control of your thought process and express the first or first trillion things that hit your mind without any hesitation.

It was much harder for people to control the way their mind goes back then (especially with homo sapiens), which is why history is the way that it is. Their creativeness evolved once someone made new discoveries themselves and shared it with others. It all became a domino effect once humans realized that they can physically make something that can exist before their eyes. In other words, "monkey see, monkey do," and part of it is because it's never been done before, the other part is motivation. The same thing happens today in different form obviously. Since we have grown as a population, we have worked together to have more control over our mind and we create more and easier ways to learn about it.

Knowing yourself is a question you can never answer fully, so it's best to know the most of what you can know to better figure out how you can apply your traits to your life. We as people have to know the extents of what creativity really is in order to push the creative minds that we have now to their full potential.

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About the Creator

Avontè Payton

Musician with a huge feen for learning things psychically and giving ideas on how to assess your own character easier. I enhance the idea of "who am I?" on myself because i am constantly growing into a newer person with new abilities.

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