Creative Practice outline

Outline for Creative Practice.

1. Context
   • According to World Creators, we are all creators, but knowing that and even having an idea how we can become better creators by strengthening our Personal Universe doesn’t give us a process that results in a better world for anyone but ourselves.
   • Creating is both an internal and external process that at it’s most basic consists of looking outward to observe the world, then inward to understand and think about how we might improve it, then outward again to create the change we’ve imagined, then observe the changed world again. It’s easy to get stuck on one or parts of this process, endlessly observing and trying to understand the world without ever taking action, or constantly acting in the world without reflection.
   • This pattern defines a cyclical process that keeps that back and forth between observing and understanding, designing and building in motion so we can keep moving forward.
2. Problem
   • problem
3. Discussion
   • Forces
     • Being creative can be a very personal and solitary activity.
     • There is a romantic image many of us have of the tortured artist suffering for their work, but we need to take a more practical approach.
     • There are times when we want to be in that kind of mode, but we can’t hide our work or always keep it for just ourselves if we want to make the world better.
   • What can we do about it?
   • It’s important to have a vision of the future you want to create, but you also need to take action. A Creative Practice ensures that your vision gets created outside of the confines of your mind.
   • A creative practice has a few steps:
     • Find work that needs doing
     • Decide what’s yours to do
     • Do the work
     • Share your work with others, then look for the next work that needs doing.
   • The important thing is that you do meaningful creative work, then share, or deliver or ship that work, making it available to others.
   • Therefore:
4. Solution
   • solution
5. Posttext
   • Start by compiling a list of Work That Needs Doing by researching things that are interesting to you.
   • Then determine what on the list is Yours To Do first. Pick something that is relatively easy for you, and slowly work your way to harder tasks as you feel ready for them.