9 Ways to Get The Most Out of Your Creative Mind — PILGRIM SOUL

9 WAYS TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR CREATIVE MIND

Tapping into your best creative self can lead to a life filled with inspiration, imagination, and fulfillment. However, it is essential to know that creative excellence does not effortlessly unfold, even for the most creative people. It requires focus and dedication and can also lead to periods of frustration and disappointment. To capture the common sentiment that many creative geniuses experience throughout the creative process, take, for example, writer and satirist Dorothy Parker’s famous quote, “I hate writing. I love having written.”

If the creative process were easy, everyone would be a creative genius. More often than not, people find themselves rewriting the same lines, crumpling up a drawing, or abandoning a painting, only never to pick it up again. Being creative means continually having to work outside of one’s comfort zone, and so this feeling of discomfort is natural when flexing one’s creative muscle.

While the creative process can, at times, be discouraging, the act of being creative is a gift in itself. If Dorothy Parker hated writing so much, why did she never stop? It’s because the feeling she received upon finishing a story, upon being able to peruse through the words and narrative she…