My life is so cram packed with creativity. What a fortunate being I am. I design for a living, pulling together text and image and color to create something that communicates and emotes and strikes a chord in the viewer. And for my hobbies of drawing and painting (which led to my career as a designer, as it did for many designers), I get the joy of smearing colored goo on a piece of stretched fabric that miraculously draws bright eyes and positive responses. I think of all of these skills as just that--skills. Learned. I do not think I was born with a special gift for drawing a likeness or arranging type and image. I think if anything is inborn, it was the attraction to creativity and joy I received from doing those things, which made me want to do them more, which made me good at them. I like the idea of a muse or a gift from some divine source, but because I could not draw well as a child or design well as a teenager, I think of them as skills which I worked to create.
However. Having read and loved the bestseller "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert, I have an inclination to hang on her every word. As in this video, which I STRONGLY suggest you watch if you have a single drop of creative inclination in you. Or wish you did.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
(by the way--I use a lot of commas when I journal. Too many. Please excuse.)
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