I recently read the book “Steal Like An Artist” by Austin Kleon. I highly recommend it. This book helped me realize two important benefits of any creative process. Understand you are solely responsible to improve yourself. Whether that be to practice, educate, train, you are the initiator. The buck stops with you. A quote I love that…

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I feel like people often view creativity as a loose magic. Like it’s a kind of spontaneous force that they can do little to entice and so they resolve to wait for it to knock on their door. I take a different approach. I feel like creativity is a skill, a muscle you can grow….

All of us should be trying to inject some creativity into our lives and work. However, creativity is not thinking of original ideas. Because there is no such thing as originality. “What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”-William Ralph Inge The idea that there is nothing truly original can seem discouraging. How can I create something amazing…