The Creative Instinct

Right then - in part 1 and part 2 of this series I’ve looked at the pros and cons of delayed and instant gratification.
As Gaina suggests in the comments for Part 2, hitting the right balance is vital. Like most things in life, it’s going to one extreme or the other that brings problems (is […]

Okay – so you read (I hope) the case for incorporating a delayed gratification approach into your creative life – now, for the first time anywhere (so far as I know), here is the case against – or…
Why Instant Gratification Rules
Note: I’m taking a devil’s advocate stance here so don’t expect any kind of balanced […]

Have you ever given up something pleasurable now in order to reap greater rewards later? That’s delayed gratification. And I’ll bet you’ve also decided to blow the consequences and take the pleasure now. That’s instant gratification.
In this post I’m going to present the standard arguments for delayed gratification and against instant gratification. Then in the […]

Here’s a question to mull over – what happens if your definition of the word success is so difficult to attain that it cripples your ability to achieve it and blinds you to the very real successes that you can (maybe already have) achieved?

The trouble with the word ‘success’ is that we often take […]

In my previous post, Planning and Goal Setting - a Message for the Terrified I talked about the difficulty many creative people have in applying goal setting and planning to their own artistic medium. We looked at how fear, bad experiences, negative image and a lack of knowledge about planning and goals could all play […]