Your toolkit expands proportionally to your creativity.

The more creative you are — the broader the range of tools are you using.

 

A huge toolbox of tools you have no idea how to use is useless.

By idea – I mean a creative idea.

You can have all the instruments in the world — if you can’t play them — it’s pointless. But you can have all the instruments in the world, AND be a virtuoso with each one of them — it’s still pointless if you have nothing new to say.

 

A head full of knowledge is like that.

It really is a garbage can.

It’s just a balloon, inflated with pride and self-assurance, while ultimately just empty.

You think you must learn things in order to do something.

No.

You learn WHILE you do something.

 

Your knowledge should expand proportionally to your creativity. Proportionally to your purpose.

Your knowledge, your skills — should supplement your creativity.

Without creativity — all those tools, all this knowledge — is useless. It’s colours and brushes stowed in the basement. It’s a rusted bike. It’s a waste of space.

 

Most learning institutions are a waste of space. Factories of useless knowledge.

Most people are a waste of space. Walking garbage cans of useless knowledge.

 

Unless you are creative — you have no business learning. You’ll have nothing to learn anyway.

You won’t even remember it! Knowledge unimplemented immediately passes into history. Your mind knows to not know.

 

Now, if you are creative…

You must learn.

“Must” is perhaps not the best way of putting it.

You will learn. It’s inevitable. It’s part of the process.

The worse you can do is tamper with that process.

Creativity cultivated can lead to all kinds of perversions.

You don’t want to have an ideal of “THE NEW”. That is pretentiousness. Your work will be disconnected from reality. It will be artificial. Unspontaneous. Try-hard. Pointless extravagance.

Creativity must spring out naturally.

And when it does – so does the corresponding learning.

Some of us have an ideal of being creative… thus they discard learning.

NOT-LEARNING is not the right response to the problem of the burden of knowledge.

It’s your ATTITUDE which is the problem. Not the fact of learning.

Don’t try to be creative by “breaking all the rules”.

Let yourself transcend the rules, carried by the flow of your own spontaneous creation.