Creativity benefits from a free mind
Wanted to see if you agree and if you've been feeling this during your holidays. I took all Dec off work to wrap up music stuff; been nicely able to reconnect with my creative self.
One old truth relating to creativity: the more you work, the more restricted your creativity will be.
Creativity truly benefits from a free mind.
This is not to say that we shouldn't work for / earn our living, because we should. And I absolutely, totally appreciate and love my jobs and position (mixing and mastering engineer and music production "helper"/tutor), as those positions truly didn't come easy (nearly a lifelong thing in a way), so don't take this the wrong way.
But there's just no way around the old fact that only once your mind is fully free, it can start creating with full steam.
Agree, oh dear studio rats?
PS: An end-of-the-year post dropping SOON.
And a list of forthcoming content will come soon too!
Comments (2)
Can't tell you how many times my day job has interrupted my creative flow recently. Nothing worse than being engulfed in something and then having to stop. It's really interesting how the creative mind works as a process flowing back and forth between various stages.
Ain't that right! Me, I'm always at my most creative if there's a period (even just 2-3 days) of freetime. I hate it how in the week the creative mindset doesn't really even often get to start, because let's say I work till 5 pm, i cant somehow get straight into music (one reason may be i work with [others'] music), so I'll feel like it at 7 pm at the earliest, and as im thinking i gotta work the next day, i usually dont want to work on music very late either. I think Friday nights and Sat mornings are the best, as you wont be thinking of tomorrow. I've always had this "curse of (thinking of) tomorrow" that hinders creativity…which flourishes when the mind is fully free, even just for a day or two.