🌈 a creative playdate

your creative weekend prompt

To expand upon on just one of the six ways I proposed for staying sane in Monday’s post, I want to invite you to make something this weekend. Creating is our birthright as human beings. Creation is the opposite of destruction, and it’s so necessary in this moment when we might not feel sure what to do. Martha Beck says, “Instead of saying, ‘What can I do now?’ ask yourself, ‘What can I make now?’ That shift takes you into curiosity and into the part of the brain that connects things together and solves mystery — you’re in creativity.”

What if you insist you’re not creative? What if you don’t know where to start? Check this out:

“When NASA tested adults to see how many creative geniuses they could find to hire, they found that 2% of adults rate as creative geniuses. Someone then thought to test 4- and 5-year-olds and found that 98% of them were creative geniuses. So somewhere along the way, our creative genius gets throttled. If you can be creative the way a 4- or 5-year-old is, it’s pure fun. There’s no judgment.” -Martha Beck

Children are aware of their inherent ability to create and are visibly enthusiastic about the life-affirming magic of putting something new into the world. Often adults have abandoned our inner makers for more socially sanctioned (read: capitalistic) pursuits. Let’s suspend that self-critical adult mind and invite our inner little ones to create. Here’s an idea: