How to Build a Creator’s Mindset — From Baking Pie to Designing Your Best Life
Imagine you’re taking a walk, standing in the shower, reading a poem, listening to your stomach rumble and Zing! You get a creative idea. The energy wakes your senses and you feel excited about the possibilities. More ideas show up, building off the first, and you can’t wait to get started.
It might be the “idea of the century” that promises financial freedom. Or it might be an idea that juices your creative energy and makes you feel more alive than you’ve felt in a long time. Then, Zap! Rather than you being the light force brightening your corner of the world, it feels like you’ve been short-circuited and darkened by doubt. In an instant, the clouds of uncertainty and inaction return and you’ve lost your creative confidence.
Tom Kelley, the author of Creative Confidence, describes the creative mindset as a “combination of thought and action” and “the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.”
After an idea strikes, it’s easy to lose our courage and fail to take creative action. Our willingness to stretch out of our comfort zone often fades because we lack the creator’s mindset—the set of attitudes and beliefs about yourself…
