Why are creative pursuits good for you?
Sometimes we need to pursuit a question more within our range. Sometimes a question is too bold for the now. How is a creative question situated within a comfortable reach from where you are working from today?
Shifting from one approach to another. Within creative pursuits you place yourself in control. And you are sometimes in a predicament where you choose something that enables you to get something accomplished. It would be a mistake to call this choosing the easy path. You sometimes encounter junctures of perception, of changing the dial a little bit. When we change the paradigm, then we can do some work.
Creative work is good for us because we can get into the details of where we are in our work and provocations from that work.
Can creativity save the world? Compelling question. Too much to take up right now. Where is the leverage for this question? Why are creative pursuits good for us? Still bold but seems navigable and challenging.
We place ourselves in positions to reach beyond what we can do. And in that process, we have to decide whether we are reaching too far or within a challenging plausibility. One wants a challenge within the range of possibility. Working with any creative pursuits for a certain amount of time, even a short amount of time of three months. This is long enough so that you start to see what you’re doing and you can measure within your mind what you would like to do.
Creative pursuits open our perception to gems worth mining for that we might not have otherwise noticed.