Why You are More Creative Than Everybody Else

Everything counts, and especially the little things

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You are special. Unique. Nobody on Earth is quite like you.

Your mind is concentrated around handling what is you - what you consist of, physically and mentally, what you have in your surroundings, which friends you have and how they are, and what happens to you during the days - and did happen during your life. It shapes your mind, making you – you.

You are:

•  Your left-handedness - or right-handedness

•  Your bad knee - or excellent physical condition

•  Your introvertedness - or extravertedness

•  Your memory of the bird singing just before

•  Your beautiful smile

•  Your strange sense of humor

•  Your dark mind - or bright mind

•  Your thoughtfulness - or thoughtlessness

•  Your achievement of having run 100m faster than you thought you could

•  Your collection of milk cartons from all over the world

•  Your rare cactus that even flowered one year

•  Your ability to fix the broken antenna on your car

•  Your bookshelf with all the Tolkien books nicely lined up after size

•  Your flu, appearing at an odd time of the year

•  Your shoes with a hole in one, but you like them

•  Your entire life history

•  Your future

•  Your lacking knowledge of a million things

•  Your surprising knowledge of a million other things

•  Your mistakes

•  Your accidental moments of being right even though you didn’t know anything about the topic

•  Your soft kiss

•  Your intense eyes

•  Your deep love

•  Your just as deep sorrow

•  Your emotional stability - or instability

What did I forget? What else describes you?

You are yourself - the combination of so many details that nobody else can claim to be like you. And all of yourself contributes to your views of the world - how you see every little thing around you, or not. How you tend to think about the long lines, or not. 

Your creativity lives in you, as the one you are. You can tell something that is obvious and even boring to you, which will fascinate some others, because it is surprising to them.

In any thinkable situation, you will be able to see something that others cannot see. Say something that others would not have said. Write something that is contrary to everything others would have written.

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This is uniquely you. This is what you can give to the world. When seeking a creative strain, this is what you should look for.

When scientists want to know something, they measure - send out a probe and get results back. You do the same when you want to know which good idea you may have or are about to get: Send out a probe. The probe is any sensory input - something you see, hear, smell, taste, or feel, or which appears out of your memories or other thoughts - it meets your mind, gets reflected, partly absorbed, partly altered, and it ends up as a result that shows the new you, consisting of the old you and the probe, combined. You become your measurement, you become a new one, all the time, for every input.

As an example, try describing what you see around you. Start in one side of your viewable world and work your way through everything you see.

I am looking out of the window just now, and I live high, so I see roofs of different buildings, trees in between, and a road here and there. To the left, a row of row houses, another one next to them. they are two floors high, yellow brick walls, brown brick roofs. Next is a church, some other building behind it, and in between the church and the other building is a tree almost hiding. 

Just the top of it is reaching up above the buildings. It must be in the shadow most of the day. How is life in and around such a tree? Maybe a bench under it, making it a nice place to sit in the shadow on a warm summer day. Birds may find more rest there, I bet that there are several birds’ nests in the tree, being protected from the strongest winds by the surrounding buildings. Are birds eating caterpillars mostly from nearby or from further away? If nearby, then this tree could be lucky to see fewer of these little creatures if there are several birds living in it. Cats probably like to stay around, as they are always interested in birds. Squirrels, perhaps, even though there is some distance to the next tree, because of the birds’ eggs, of course.

You get it? Trying to describe what you see almost inevitably leads to thinking about the seen and a wish to know more, hence, trying to describe both your questions to the world and the possible answers. 

Before you know of it, you are in a creative mood. And your specific creativity is different from everybody else’s, since you are unique, bringing in your experience and perspectives. Remember that your uniqueness is interesting for others. You do not need to look for a creative strain that is like that of someone else - you do not need to write like Hemingway or Dostojevskij. You just write like you, and you are home safe.

Nobody else in the world can do that exactly like you. You are the most creative, more than anyone else - the only one capable of doing that.

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Remember, you are the best version of you, and you decide - you can do exactly what you want to!