1680: Your creativity is like glitter
If you’ve ever beaten yourself up about abandoning projects, or you generally give yourself a hard time about not finishing everything. Today’s episode might be the reframe you need.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Monday to you. So as multi-passionates, one of the things that we give ourselves a hard time about is going deep down a rabbit hole, getting obsessed with something, and then one day going off of it and having a pile of unfinished projects. And if that sounds familiar, this one is for you, because one of the things that we forget is that we take a bit of everything into everything we do. What I mean is that our creativity and the things we learn and our curiosity, they are like glitter and they get fucking everywhere. I don't know if you've ever spilled a massive glitter tube or a small glitter tube before, and it doesn't seem to matter How careful you are in tidying up, you will still be finding glitter under your boob 2 weeks later. It spreads even if you can't see it, and to the most unlikely of places. The truth is, the things we learn, they come with us in all shapes and sizes to every single project. And sometimes you have to go down one rabbit hole to end up at another spectacular rabbit hole.
that you might not even have gotten to if you hadn't said fuck it to that project. And one of the fabulous things about being creative and multi-passionate is that we end up cross-pollinating so many different things, but often we can only see how the pieces fit together later, and in the moment it can feel messy, and we can have a big dollop of shame around not finishing everything. But I don't know about you, but if somebody sat me down and forced me to finish every single project That absolutely would not be my definition of fun. Your creativity and the things you do and the things you learn and the rabbit holes you get lost in, they are never ever wasted. And creativity is so much more nuanced than just saying, I fancy baking a cake, let me get all the stuff, get a recipe, let's bake the cake, ta-da, done. I'm not saying that isn't creative because it is creative, but the creative process is very rarely that linear, and we give ourselves such a hard time about things that are actually part of the process and are to be expected. But because they feel so messy, and because our inner dream shitter is so loud when it comes to a bunch of this creative stuff, because it is outside of our comfort zone, we think we must be doing something wrong. And that is not true.
If you take nothing else from this episode, remember that creativity And your curiosity, they are both like glitter, they stick to everything. And giving up on a project or losing interest is not a sign of failure, it is a sign of being a wildly curious person, and not everybody gets that. And while it can be sometimes frustrating, it is also such a gift. So here's to reclaiming our glitter. If you're curious about your own superpowers and kryptonite and haven't taken my Rebel Archetype Quiz, It's really quick, it's really fun, and also genuinely really helpful. And it can be a fabulous way of understanding more about you, your creative process, and how to harness your gifts. And you can go do that for free over at therebelrousers.com/quiz. And I hope you have a fabulous start to your week. Take care.
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