Forced creativity is just repetition.

 

How do you enforce creativity?

What are you enforcing?

You have a standard, an ideal of being creative — and now you try to reach it.

This standard is obviously repetition. Or else, it wouldn’t be a standard.

So you are just repeating what someone did once, and was considered “creative”.

But you’re not creative.

You are just repeating.

 

HOW ARE YOU CREATIVE?

How do you become creative, then?

What is creativity?

 

Creativity is creation of the new.

How do you create the new?

You must first access the new.

Can the old give birth to the new?

Obviously it can’t.

 

When you use the old, use the “knowledge”, what you are really doing is collating it with the new.

The old is merely the starting point. And the starting point is always in the KNOWN. Because that’s where you are at all times. In the known, in the old. You can’t be anywhere else.

But the old can never create the new.

The new comes from the new.

Creativity springs from the new.

 

I want you to understand it,

someone who wants to be creative, may perhaps succeed in directing himself in the direction of the NEW…. (and that is the only hope for him).

But this whole force, this whole desire to “be creative”, it is obviously uncreative.

INSPIRATION is creative.

INSPIRATION, which SPONTANEOUSLY SPRIGS OUT FROM THE UNKNOWN.

Forced creativity is a terrible approach. It’s damaging.

To be creative — be open. Be brave. Be EXPLORING!

It’s the way you are. Not the way you condition yourself to be.

Anything forced is destructive.

It’s a good way of destroying your true, innate creativity.

You wonder why you’re being uncreative in the first place?

Because you buried your inquisitiveness, you buried the doors to the NEW, under the weight of ROUTINES, BELIEFS and PRECONCEPTIONS.

You can’t force creativity, my friend.

But you can get rid of everything which stands in it’s way.

Forget what you know, forget what you think, forget what you “should do”. Open yourself to this abundance of possibilities.

This is how you become creative.