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?
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Dealing with the block
Its 10.21 AM, Friday—the last working day of the week. I sit at my desk in the office and have opened a New Microsoft Word document to scribble something as I work on the other server. The server response is slow and I am using its slowed down speed to my advantage, praying that it does not come up for another at least half an hour. (Making use of official resources for personal things you can say. A sin, is it? ) But I don’t want to miss this now. Coz I know how difficult it is to regain this disposition and gather myself for writing again. It would mean another half a year at least. I just got a sudden realization 10 minutes back. This piece of writing is an upshot of the same. It has been long since I wanted to enter this world of Blogs and have been postponing it for no reason.
I used to take pride in the fact that people are egging me on to start blogging. I had got a sort of a smug glow of self-congratulation.
I could literally feel some air passing through my neck towards my head with the feeling that people want to read what I might be writing and that they are curious about what I would write.
Nah nah.. don’t think I am writing this so that people get an opportunity read it. On the contrary, I write this to just get myself out of this false image of mine in my mind. So, actually it’s ok if no one reads it or gives me no comments. This is just so that I get out of this habit of procrastinating things without any good reason.
I used to take pride in the fact that people are egging me on to start blogging. I had got a sort of a smug glow of self-congratulation.
I could literally feel some air passing through my neck towards my head with the feeling that people want to read what I might be writing and that they are curious about what I would write.
Nah nah.. don’t think I am writing this so that people get an opportunity read it. On the contrary, I write this to just get myself out of this false image of mine in my mind. So, actually it’s ok if no one reads it or gives me no comments. This is just so that I get out of this habit of procrastinating things without any good reason.
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