The Gift and Curse of Creativity

I talked in a previous post about the danger of having too many ideas. Your ideas always come too fast and you have too many to do them all. That’s the gift and curse of being a creative person.

I suggest a reading of John Maeda (professor at the MIT Media Lab and world-renowned graphic designer) :
The Gift:“… is that it is a real gift to think of all kinds of things you can possibly do. Unfortunately, it can be a curse because it prevents you from ever doing anything at all. You can get started on something, and then immediately derailed because you start to see something completely new elsewhere. And then when you branch off to that, you get off on another tangent. If you are not careful, all you leave is a massive trail of unfinished work with nothing to show for. So the gift of ideas, is the curse of doing nothing…”

Add comment July 18th, 2007