182: Your creative style will change
Today we're debunking the myth that your creative style has to stay the same, and diving into how your creative voice evolves as you do!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Thursday to you. Your lesson to the daily pack, which is the only daily podcast. For creative, multi passionate, rebellious, and unconventional women, who wanna get out their own way and make shit happen. So earlier this week, we were talking all about this idea of finding your own creative style or your own creative voice and how it's something that so many of us struggle with. And we really dove into this idea that the only way you find it is by using it and by developing it and giving yourself permission to explore it. And I wanna dive a bit deeper into that today because I think so often there's this myth that you find your style and that's it. It's something that stays with you for life. It never changes, and you have to stick to that style.
Now like we talked about earlier in the week, there are definitely gonna be patterns and themes that emerge in your work across your lifetime. There are things that make it uniquely you, that make it identifiable as you, but that doesn't mean it has to be this rigid concept. The reality is that over your life as your taste develop, as you have your life experiences and your stories, your style will evolve as you do. Our work and our creative voice tends to grow with us. And what that's gonna mean is that your work for one period of your life will probably look completely distinctly different to another period of your life. And I think sometimes we get caught up in this trap that maybe that means we didn't find our style or our voice after all, but that is just absolute bollocks. Your style is gonna change as you do. I know for me, if I look at my work from different years ago, there is the same thread that's running through it but it's definitely showing up in different ways.
It's true for many of us creators that we look back on our past work and we see things that we would improve or we do differently. But that was a reflection of who we were at that time, of our experiences, of our tastes, of our styles. And it's okay if your style has evolved completely. In fact, I would be surprised if it hadn't. Around here, we're all about not fitting into a box. We're all about living the life that only you could live. And I just wanna remind you that that is true when it comes to your creativity as well. If you wanna change things up, do.
And if you feel like you've stuck yourself in a box that you're outgrowing, I invite you to remember the Banksy quote, which is think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it. Your style will evolve as you evolve, as your interests evolve, as your passions evolve, as they do for us multipassionates. And that does not make you flighty or flaky or somebody who doesn't finish things. That makes you a human that is growing, that is changing, and that is emerging. So here's to embracing your creativity in all of its forms. Here's to not putting yourself in a box, and here's to knowing that change is natural. If you would like a weekly dose of rebel rising and permission to live outside the box in your email every week, make sure you're signed up to my Sunday emails where it's all about embracing being a creative, multifacetionate, rebellious, and unconventional woman. And it's all about building a life that only you can live, and I'm sharing how I'm building mine in the hope that it'll help you build yours.
You can sign up to them by going to that therebelrousers.com and clicking on Sunday emails, or click the link in the show notes, and I would love to see you there. So until next time, stay creative, stay curious, and stay weird. See you then.
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