The creativity game
We're all creative in some way. Being creative is fun and also scary.
You create something. You want to share it. You don’t want to be judged, there’s already enough of that going on in your mind.
Putting stuff we care about into the world can feel daunting, especially if we’re holding on tightly to it.
I really like the idea of tiny experiments. 𝘋𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨.
I heard a coach use the game Snakes and Ladders as a metaphor for creating. It went something like this:
Show up and roll the dice each day to play the game
Take chances to move in a forward direction by rolling the dice
After you’ve rolled, you respond to what shows up along the way
The more you roll, the more the odds are in your favour that you’ll end up eventually completing the game
You might go up some ladders you didn’t expect
You might go down some snakes you didn’t want to meet
The more you play the game, the more opportunity you have to win but also to slip backwards and start again
If you stop playing, then you have no chance of winning, learning or losing
If you don’t play the game at all, you won’t move
If you don’t start the game, you won’t know how much fun it could have been
What I heard in this was that just by rolling the dice and starting to create something — whether it’s sharing an idea, having a hard conversation, writing something, sketching or taking some other action — you’re moving further than you would be if you played it safe and stayed still.
Sometimes it feels harder to stand still than to move.
What would it look like if the creativity game was a game of Risk or Chess or even Exploding Kittens?
