Creativity In Bed With Instability

What does it do to us to be chained to fate? There is a way to abandon all the guides of doom funnelling the way to a hell of mediocrity and anonymity. Please read on...

Great things happen when they are caused by disruption. Mozart was a genius and his fantastical work was caused under strange circumstances. Many believe that his prolific creativity was driven by his depressions. We all need strange circumstances to make us do strange things. The everyday grind produces nothing if no passion is there.

What can be done to defeat the demons of necessity? One way is to become reckless and to abandon common sense and spurn the actions of the sensible. It may be better to abandon morals and ethics to achieve great things than live a virtuous life and have nothing worthwhile to show for it.

The cost of creativity is the wages of discomfort and woe. The most creative times in history were times of upheaval and angst.

There is something lurking in the Universe that is imponderable and yet so important that we are all missing it. It is something under our noses that underpins reality. We do not know what it is but we can sense it. And this is the power of the artist, of the charismatic: to tap into this strange thing that weaves the fabric of reality. It cannot be grasped. It cannot be made into a tangible object. The only thing to do is to expose ourselves to uncertainty.

If we become unhinged then we may find out what it might be, this unknown. The force that drives the human mind to creativity is an evolutionary-caused power to attract mates by doing clever stuff. Creative power can be awoken by triggering that subconscious drive. One potent way to tap into this drive is to trigger the very thing that nature created creativity for: to get out of trouble and into a nice, safe situation.

But once you are in that nice, safe situation then the creative drive is switched off. It is no longer needed. We are back to static under-achievement. To prevent this, it must be the case that you must abandon the comforts and monotony of life and shake everything up. There is a far more colourful route to fulfilment and this is the most dangerous of all. Take your life and throw everything up in the air. This is the battle - creativity versus comfort.

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