If you wait for originality, you will rarely come up with something new.

There are numerous reasons that you may consider to make you stop saying the creative words that you are about to say.

There are always many reasons that can justify why you shouldn’t say what you are about to put in your next creative publication. If you follow these reasons, you will end up not saying anything.

Being creative is about producing. I like to regard creativity as not primarily an act of originality, but an act of productivity. This is why it provides us the creative people with the most reward and dopamine surges. Being creative is considered by our minds to be more productive than if we engaged in any other type or category of accomplishing great stuff. You want to make something exist in the real world because of you, that couldn’t have ever existed in the real world if it weren’t for you and your efforts.

I am only telling you this to help you understand that creativity isn’t about inventing or discovering something new. Creativity largely involves discovering and inventing new stuff, but it does not depend upon that only. The state of being creative is the state of being productive. Not the state of being inventive or seeking to discover something new. Of course if you make any kind of discovery or invention, you will be exercising your creativity in the process and you will be meeting, fulfilling, and satisfying your creativity needs greatly. But if you depend on that only, you will end up starving your creativity needs, because discovering something new involves and aims at other goals, which include coming up with something that makes a difference and makes life better. This should not necessarily be the case with being creative. If your creativity is suspended until you discover something new that is worth showing to the rest of the world, you will rarely be creative, and you will be exercising creativity for reasons that you are already motivated toward them by exercising stuff other than creativity. Hence, your creativity needs will be starving.

Aside from this, let’s assume that the creativity needs are sufficiently satisfied by discovering something new and publishing it to the entire world. Still, your creativity needs will rarely be satisfied because regardless of the rate by which you discover new things, this rate will always be way slower than that which would sufficiently satisfy your creativity needs. Only being hyper productive would make up for this void or lack of enough satisfaction of your creativity needs.
Produce more, and then you will rise up to a mind set or state of creativity that will lead to your mind generating new discoveries, solutions, and creative thoughts by a much larger quantity and quality than your normal.

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