My biggest realization is this summer is that creative genius is "a thing". It really exists and that it is not to be demeaned.
I have come to acknowledge that creativity takes hard work and effort. That professional artists, writers, designers, and musicians are not all self-absorbed idealists living in a rarified bubble accessible to the privileged few. There are "working" creative-types who do "ordinary" creative jobs that are highly satisfying but lack the publicity and prestige.
I have come to acknowledge that creativity takes hard work and effort. That professional artists, writers, designers, and musicians are not all self-absorbed idealists living in a rarified bubble accessible to the privileged few. There are "working" creative-types who do "ordinary" creative jobs that are highly satisfying but lack the publicity and prestige.
My whole outlook on what makes "meaningful work" and what comprises a "useful contribution" to society has changed. After all Aristotle, Plato, all the great Western "thinkers" were amazing writers and took time to think deeply before they embarked on all that great sciencey stuff.
In short, there is a place for thinkers and those who value the quiet space of their own mind.
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