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Fanfare for Creativity
Fanfare for creativity: A celebratory event, not when you win the ribbon for best of show, or a standing ovation for a stage performance, or when the last guest puts down his or her champagne glass and leaves the building; giving you the opportunity to bask in self adoration. I once heard that recipients of the Nobel prize often feel an extreme let down after the awards event. Go figure: that’s one for the psychologists.
Everyone loves accolades, formal or informal, we all bask in applause directed towards ourselves and our creative accomplishments. Ultimately, it’s a supplemental cure for our self insecurities, which in this time and age, seems to be readily available.
Chasing fame: there’s never enough social media claps, emojis, or written applause and adulation that will ever satisfy the vanities of sensitive creators. The artistic endeavors that come from so much undisciplined and disciplined creative efforts seems to thrive on fame and glory. Reputedly, it may be more about the character of the talent than the actual accomplishments.
If you are what you think about all day long; and you live the creative life, you may be on the quick, to instigate your own fanfare. Give it a whirl. The Instructions are easy to follow.
- You must like yourself: this is imperative, all too often people apologize for their imperfections. The…
