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Creative Forces Converged

Creative Forces Converged

When creative forces converge on something you have done, you immediately know it.

Or at least that is what I have been told…

Sure, I have had minor hits and minor successes.

A blog post here or there that reaches the right audience or touches a nerve.

More often than not, a post will hit the most on the day it’s published.

My favorite is when a long dormant piece finds new legs somewhere and gets hundreds of views, months, even years after it was originally written.

This is the inflection point that all creatives seek, a magical time when all the work you have put forth conspires to elevate your career to a higher plane.

This is Steve Martin’s inflection point:

Forces converged. The article in Rolling Stone, my live performances, appearances on The Tonight Show, a modestly produced one-man show on the new and experimental network HBO, and intriguing reviews and press made audiences ignite. The confluence that I had doubted would ever happen through auditions for sitcoms was now happening outside of Hollywood’s control. My audience was developing more like a rock-and-roll band’s than a comedian’s: I was underground and on the road.

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up (Amazon)

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The Bliss Of Creative Naïveté

The Bliss Of Creative Naïveté

If I am being honest, creative naïveté is exactly what you want starting out with any type of creative endeavor.

Singing. Painting. Writing. Anything.

Because if you had any idea – any real idea – of how hard the task was going to be, you would never start.

So I say start young if possible. And work as hard as you can for as long as you can.

Get comfortable with the practice of it!

In the long run, it’s also incredibly important to know your why.

Why are you doing all of this in the first place?

Riches? Fame? Critical acclaim?

Is this a task that you want to make part of your life even if you are terrible at it?

Even if you “fail” at it?

If so, then you might be on to something.

Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up (Amazon)

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