The Creative Instinct

I’m having trouble writing my next posting for The Creative Instinct.
I’ve been trying to produce my second article about the power of small gifts - about gifts to and from others. It’s a lovely, juicy topic that’s got my head fizzing with ideas that simply refuse to settle down and let me write them.
Here’s were […]

My head’s in a spin. I just came across the following quote from the great psychologist Abraham Maslow:

A first rate soup is more creative than a second rate painting.

Is it?

There are all sorts of ways of looking at this. I guess that certainly the original creation of a ‘first rate’ soup is […]

This is a very personal posting.

It’s ironic that only a few weeks after celebrating The Creative Instinct first birthday – and looking forward to the continued growth and development over the next year – I’ve been really struggling to keep on blogging.

If you’re a regular reader you may have noticed a drop in […]

As I sit here writing this I’m in my back garden, naked. It’s January – and although the sun is shining beautifully today, it’s freezing. My chair is icy cold and my todger has shrunk to the size of a peanut.

A neighbour peers over the garden fence. Would I like a sock to […]

Well, earlier this week I wrote a post entitled Creativity and Depression. A comment by Sari offered the other perspective on the subject. Among a number of interesting points Sari argued that media presentation and our own willingness (as creative people) to express ourselves skewed the perception towards that of the suffering artist. I’ve […]