Mood: Content
Listening to: Location - Freelance Whales
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It annoys me that my computer won't let me have space between each paragraph unless I put a period there. Sigh.
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Tuesday morning I woke up at five in the morning to go running. For a normal teenager, the act of getting out of bed that early would be quite a feat. For me, however, it’s not really anything to brag about. There has to be something installed in my head that makes it incapable for me to sleep past nine. What can I say? I’m a morning person. This isn’t to say that I wasn’t a little groggy when I rolled out of the warmth of my comforter, though. (Yes, I was sleeping with a comforter during summer. My mom keeps the house an ice box. Thank you, menopause.)
I decided that since it was early morning, this called for inspiration music. I chose to kick it off with Generator 1st Floor. It provided this ultimate sense of clarity for me. I was able to clear my mind and think about what is going on in my life. The topic of the day was “Simplicity”. That’s for another day though. What I wanted to say is that I love the way music can be a great catalyst for insightful thoughts. The words and thoughts of other’s can spark your own individual ones which you can there share with someone else. It’s a great cycle.
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I was talking yesterday with someone about creativity and “geniusness” so to say (I just invented a word). He told me about a video he watched of a woman giving a speech on the same topic. Is brilliance in the person or in the world? So often I heard people say about a writer or musician “Wow, they are just so amazingly creative.” But is it really the person themselves who is creative? Or is the brilliance out in the world, waiting to be found. I would argue the latter. Creativity and brilliance comes for inspiration. It is impossible to be a naturally inspire individual. You can be an insightful individual and you can be an individual with moments of inspiration, but you can’t just have brilliance instilled within your core. It is extremely egotistical of us to believe that we are just naturally brilliant human beings. Brilliance and inspiration comes from the world that is all around us. It comes from combining your thoughts with others. It comes from living the life that we have been graciously given.
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The woman giving the aforementioned speech, Elizabeth Gilbert, said that creativity its your randomly in a wave. I couldn’t agree more. You never know when brilliance will strike you. But when it does, it is just this wave of unbelievable clarity. You know exactly what you’re supposed to write/draw/paint/whatever. You are so overwhelmed with this sudden stroke of inspiration that it is of the utmost importance that you get it down on paper immediately before it is lost forever.
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Brilliance is a gift to us that comes in small moments, sporadically. We are not born with it. It isn’t something we can pay for.
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She can probably explain better:
http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
