🔼: [[⭐️ Emotions]], [[☀️ Self-Energy#Qualities of Self-Energy|☀️ Qualities of Self-Energy]] ###### Creativity – the "God Impulse" The ability to think outside of the box that our [[💡 Protector Parts|Protector Parts]] find themselves stuck inside of and solve seemingly unsolvable problems[^1] It involves the ability to recognize possibility, unique ways of thinking — the parameter dials of life. A creative genius will see and implement possibilities that no one else even knew existed. > "Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake. Now if you think about [[☀️ Playfulness|☀️ play]], you'll see why. True [[☀️ Playfulness|☀️ play]] is experiment. What happens if I do this? What would happen if we did that? What if the very essence of [[☀️ Playfulness]] is an openness to anything that may happen, a feeling that whatever happens, it's okay. So you cannot be [[☀️ Playfulness|☀️ playful]] if you're frightened that moving in some direction will be wrong, something you shouldn't have done. When you're either free to [[☀️ Playfulness|☀️ play]] or you're not. As [[👤 Alan Watts]] puts it, "You can't be spontaneous within reason." So you've got to risk saying things that are silly and illogical and wrong, and the best way to get the confidence to do that is to know that while you're being creative, nothing is wrong. [[🔑 There is no such thing as failure|🔑 There's no such thing as a mistake]] and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough. And now, the last factor, the fifth, humor. Well, I have to think the main evolutionary significance to humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else." > – John Cleese Similar Qualities: [[☀️ Playfulness]], Joy, Spontaneity - [[🔑 We need Nothing]] Life itself, how we live, how we relate to ourselves, others, the cosmos, how we express ourselves are all a creative act, a kind of art project. %% Create a setting, a team, a community in which you feel comfortable making mistakes, failing, even starting over. Creativity as channeling. %% ###### See Also - [[🛡️ Perfectionism]] - [[Spontaneity]] - [[⭐️ Self-Becoming]] - [📖 The Artist's Way](https://bookshop.org/a/81679/9780143129257) by Julia Cameron - [📖 The Creative Act: A Way of Being](https://bookshop.org/a/81679/9780593652886) by Rick Ruben - [📖 Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear](https://bookshop.org/a/81679/9781594634727) by Elizabeth Gilbert - [📖 We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something](https://bookshop.org/a/81679/9780593833001) by Amie McNee [^1]: [[📖 ✅ IFS Online Circle]]