This is my first blog post. Be nice to me please!
I believe we all have this essence of creativity in us, things we’re ridiculously good at, and as much as people hate to admit it, there’s always this element of art in us, even if it comes out as some weird science breakthrough, I still feel its art.
I’ve always been good at writing, and I don’t know how I almost always have the right things to say to people in terms of speaking to or advising a crowd and I always wondered why, though I never really point it out when someone asks me for my hobbies or talents, it just never seemed like a ‘thing’.
Lately, I’ve gotten more serious about it and I’ve come to see what I unconsciously did to get this far, and what I should do to move even further.
1. Books
It’s no joke, a reader IS a leader. I was never really a fan of books personally, but everyone in my house reads, I mean my dad is a professor and my mom is an editor, imagine the combo! We have a room dedicated to books and my sister still has shelves of books in her room, not just educational books but motivational ones, novels, whatever, they read. Somehow, reading always came to me as much as I didn’t want to and I remember I always suddenly got this drive to write deep words every time I read a book, it was like there a writing switch in my head that came on every time I read a book. I haven’t read much so far, but now that I’m taking this writing thing serious, I have to challenge myself to do more.
2. NIKE had a point
The year I got into enter secondary school, I got myself a diary from my little savings. It just seemed cool to have a diary, cause every teenager in movies did, so I did too. I was 11 then, and I had no idea that was the beginning of a long journey. I wrote basically every experience that happened to me in secondary school; from crushes to teachers to friends that broke my heart to friends I kinda liked to my parents to EVERYTHING! I had no idea I was training myself to have better expressions and tell better stories. So my point from here is to do…just do. If you want to learn to draw, draw; if you want to learn to think, think; if you want to learn to dance, dance; if its maths, do maths. Whatever it is, really just do it.
3. TV
Believe it or not, TV has come a long way in helping me think outside the box. Not necessarily educative tv, in fact I doubt I ever saw those (except when dad made me by force). I mostly saw movies, cartoons, whatever it was that looked fun. I still do, I still love movies. TV gives you an idea of what happens around the world, and especially really good movies and not the ones that make no sense are have such terrible cinematography and actors (not mentioning but you know those ones). So movies go a long way, really its not just for the fun, listen to it and get something. My fav series is big bang theory, its ridiculously funny and I somehow learn something. Then I love every marvel movie, I’m just always so fascinated, and oh don’t get me started on Xmen! Not just geeky movies, there’s always something to pick from tv, how people do things, and you find yourself unconsciously picking up a nice accent!
4. People
Spend time around creative people. Talk to them more and yes ‘famz’, it’s not a sin if you’re helping yourself. Smart people talk to smart people who have spent time with even smarter people. If you want to be rich, spend time with rich people, you find yourself picking up a thing or two about becoming rich and no I don’t mean spoilt children of rich people who think their ATM is a magic card that gets them anything.
5. I talk to myself
Yes I do. I trust myself more than anyone else and I know I’d understand myself better. OK I actually don’t always get myself, I end up arguing with myself and it just gets really weird. But it still helps to talk to myself, sometimes it leads me to pray which always makes me feel better, and sometimes just taking time to analyze issues helps issues make more sense and sometimes I do get solutions or an idea that would bring the solution.
6. Music
I’m a lover of music. I mean music is life! I find myself getting emotional sometimes, getting strangely excited and some other times just getting really weird. I’m the girl that suddenly jumps up or dances with herself when she hears really good music. Oh how I loove music! There’s so much about music you’ll be reading on this blog. No matter who you are, figure your type of music and listen, trust me what moves you might be totally different from what others talk about, and it could seem weird, but I’ve realized that my kind of music says a lot about my kind of person and I don’t exactly know the science behind it, but it always inspires me!
So that’s basically it. I don’t do all these things that often, but letting you know them, and letting myself know them as well has somehow given me the need to do them more.
How do you stay creative? What’s your secret?
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