I choose be creatively inconsistent!
This is safe-conduct. Just in case people indict me of being creative, I select to not exhibit any consistency. Thus I don’t get accused of creativity and can easily escape this sin. The moment people notice even an iota of consistency the onus lies on me to display the same creativity. Oh my god!
I am getting confused.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Creativity or consistency?
What is more important, being creative or being consistent?
Creativity is not a skill. It is something that you cannot acquire. You cannot imbibe in you the qualities of a creative person. You cannot learn to be creative. It is something that either you can have or you cannot have.
On the contrary you can learn to be consistent. You can practice to be consistent. Consistency is something that you definitely can have after practice and hard work.
Creativity has no relation with any kind of hard work. If you are creative, you can be creative without any effort. But, if you want to be consistent you have to put in hard efforts.
So again, what is more important, being creative or being consistent?
We hear of the stories of great actors and how their glory just faded off in just a film or two. We read critics ascertaining the fact that xyz could have been a good actor or a painter or a director or a writer or a poet… had he tried to maintain consistency. What does this mean? On one side you avow that the person is potentially talented. You also agree on the fact that the person has done his job extra-ordinarily well. And then you suddenly start debating on his proficiency in the field, on account of his not being consistent.
Can you be consistently creative?
Creativity is not a skill. It is something that you cannot acquire. You cannot imbibe in you the qualities of a creative person. You cannot learn to be creative. It is something that either you can have or you cannot have.
On the contrary you can learn to be consistent. You can practice to be consistent. Consistency is something that you definitely can have after practice and hard work.
Creativity has no relation with any kind of hard work. If you are creative, you can be creative without any effort. But, if you want to be consistent you have to put in hard efforts.
So again, what is more important, being creative or being consistent?
We hear of the stories of great actors and how their glory just faded off in just a film or two. We read critics ascertaining the fact that xyz could have been a good actor or a painter or a director or a writer or a poet… had he tried to maintain consistency. What does this mean? On one side you avow that the person is potentially talented. You also agree on the fact that the person has done his job extra-ordinarily well. And then you suddenly start debating on his proficiency in the field, on account of his not being consistent.
Can you be consistently creative?
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