How to be Creative: Cultivating & Expressing Your Creativity

Often it is aspects of our own personalities that can either support or detract from experiencing the rich, productive creative lives that we desire. How do we overcome ourselves? This collection of articles and features addresses ways to cultivate the intention of creativity, practice creative thinking in everyday matters, and express ourselves in an unlimited number of creative ways. Links in the left- and right-hand menus will take you to other sections and special features on the Creativity Portal that add to and support these discussions.

Insights on the Growing Creative Self

Articles and Essays by a Creativity Enthusiast
By Chris Dunmire
Includes articles and essays: The Arts Desire, Creatively Sharing, Seeds of Creativity, Taking Risks, Four Steps of Creativity, and 6 Myths of Creativity.

Chronic Creativity Excerpts
By Angela Mack
Discusses the hypothetic symptoms of the condition known as Chronic Creativity.

Creative Expression & Personal Achievement
By Douglas Eby
Focuses on the psychological and social aspects of creative expression and personal achievement.

More Creativity Inspiring Articles

Everyone is Creative
By Kelle Walsh
From Imagine Magazine (Fall, 2004). How to nourish and flourish your own creative style.

Attitude
By Lance Gallup
Many principles are common to all humanity and apply as well to engineers and bus drivers as they do to musicians and artists.

Deal of a Lifetime
By Lilly Fluger
I have a genius, marvelous body for free! That body lets me experience the joys of beautiful sights, the pleasures from delicious tastes and aromas...

How to Be Creative: A Quick and Easy Guide
By Danny Thompson
First, you need to realize that there is a difference between creative and artistic.

Another Life ... I Wish I Were Someone Else
By Edward B. Toupin
In our very early years, we all strive to be like "someone else," as we're not really sure who we are at the time.