{"id":1931,"date":"2011-01-20T11:18:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T11:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2011-01-20T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T11:18:30","slug":"what-is-being-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"What is Being Creative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vimeo 18079655]<\/p>\n<p>creativity is no longer a word reserved for the musician or artist<br \/>\nit&#8217;s something you can find in anyone<br \/>\nit&#8217;s the ability and urge to make something of value<br \/>\nit can be big<br \/>\nit can be small<br \/>\nbut making something new<br \/>\nsomething different<br \/>\nsomething that surprises<br \/>\nsomething that makes you think<br \/>\nsomething that makes you smile<br \/>\nit&#8217;s making something beautiful<br \/>\nit&#8217;s telling a story<br \/>\nit&#8217;s telling your story<br \/>\nexpressing yourself<br \/>\nit&#8217;s about being passionate<br \/>\nit&#8217;s creating something that other people can use<br \/>\nsharing your creativity<br \/>\nit&#8217;s realising that there isn&#8217;t always a right way or a wrong way of doing things<br \/>\nand that there&#8217;s not always a correct answer<br \/>\nonly the answers that we create<br \/>\nbut common for creativity is that is comes from inspiration<br \/>\ninspiration found in the world that we live in<br \/>\nand the people we live with<br \/>\nit&#8217;s found in what we share with them<br \/>\nbuilding on what&#8217;s given from the diversity of people&#8217;s thoughts and perspectives<br \/>\nso try and drop the assumption that you know how to do things<br \/>\nand already know the solution<br \/>\nstray away from the direct path<br \/>\ntake risks<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t be afraid to make mistakes<br \/>\nbecause it&#8217;s only from the mistakes that we learn<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s from the mistakes that the really interesting things happen<br \/>\nwe may not always create or invent<br \/>\nbut we always learn when we try<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kristian Larson\" href=\"http:\/\/idkul.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kristian Larson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vimeo 18079655] creativity is no longer a word reserved for the musician or artist it&#8217;s something you can find in anyone it&#8217;s the ability and urge to make something of value it can be big it can be small but making something new something different something that surprises something that makes you think something that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[645,8,66],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel","category-wize-wordz","tag-creative","tag-inspiration","tag-online-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}