The timing of this talk could not have been worse for me personally. I was asked in 2009 to give one of those 18-minute TEDx talks in Tacoma, WA. But my son’s dad and I had just split and I was submerged in a sea of sadness. Somehow, I pulled some thoughts together with a slide show of images and proposed an idea around creativity -- that our souls were seducing us to come home to ourselves, to be ourselves in all our authenticity, and this journey would enliven our creativity, guaranteed.
As Donald McKinnon says in his book, In Search of Human Effectiveness, “The most salient mark of a creative person is courage… the courage to stand aside from the collective and be in conflict with it if necessary; the courage to become and to be oneself.”