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Not Knowing Is the Starting Point for The Creative

Not Knowing Is the Starting Point for The Creative

The essential starting point of artistic consciousness is acknowledging that something is “more than I can possibly know.”

“Knowing” is not a creative state. It’s when we don’t know that we’re open to new information, ideas, and experiences in ways that we aren’t otherwise.

 Our minds want to “know” so very badly. But let’s give ourselves permission to not know.

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Solve the problem or leave the problem. But…… Do not live with the problem.

Creativity is a lot more than we ever imagined.

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