Week 1 Response

What do you see as your weakness behind being creative and what do you think you will need to do to break away from it?


Right now, my biggest weakness when it comes to being creative is never having the time or resources to follow through with an idea. Occasionally, I'll have an idea for a photo project or some sort of art project, but between work and classes, I'm usually too tired to get started with it. Or, it's something that requires more money or other resources than I currently have available to me. Even if I write them down for future reference, when go back over them weeks or months later I've often lost the drive or desire that was there.

To be able to break away from this, I don't know what I'll need. I can't pull time or resources out of thin air, and those are two things I feel are holding me back. However, I do feel that have class assignments or projects handed to me at work helps this somewhat, since it forces me to see something through to completion with minimal time and resources at my disposal. But since that same sense of urgency doesn't drive when I'm outside of school or work, I don't push myself like would in the aforementioned situations.

I don't know what else to write here, since I usually follow the guidelines mentioned in the reading -- I approach things differently, I'm open to new ideas, I try to go outside the rules (or simply bend them, depending), etc. For me, it just comes down to not having enough time or available resources to see my projects through.