Bad Creativity
July 29, 2009
Get Ready To Run With Scissors!
This week, I publish a story of the week called “Bad Story Snippets” and I wanted to elaborate on my concept of ‘bad creativity.’ I think we all need it.
We live in a world in which we are taught that everything should be neat, pretty or perfect. But this is not the reality of the world at all. In nature, life is messy, bloody, full of both creation and destruction. Like Barbie and Ken who are so anatomically correct that they are scary, we are incultured to believe that we should be like that. Look like that, dress like that and hide anything other than that.
But that is impossible! And in the creative domain we have the chance to break free of those unnatural and culturally imposed restrictions. Years ago I used to lead really fun creative workshops and I made up a list of “Rules”. I thought that was a fun twist on things because the very nature of creativity is to leave the rules behind. So I made a play on that. I thought you might enjoy having them. 
The Hard and Fast Rules of Creativity
get ready to run with scissors
- Dare to make a mess
- Work with what you have
- Embrace obstacles as creative opportunities
- Think outside of the box
- Try something different
- Explore
- Have fun
- Be willing to make a fool of yourself
- Forget about right or wrong
- Run with scissors and enjoy it
- Cut off that tag on your mattress
- Play like a child
- Don’t care what anyone thinks
** Be prepared to twist, bend, alter, change or totally toss any rules that don’t apply! (even this one)
So my suggestion is run with scissors, enjoy yourself and forget about being perfect. Be a poster child for bad creativity and spread the news everwhere you go!
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