{"id":54787,"date":"2021-11-10T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=54787"},"modified":"2021-11-24T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T20:00:34","slug":"what-kills-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-kills-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Gilbert: What Kills Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What kills creativity? Do you often put off your creative work because of the pressure to produce something groundbreaking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many creatives, no matter the field, get stuck in their creative process<\/a> because they believe their work should look a certain way or live up to some kind of standard they made up. Such prescriptive thoughts prevent you from fully exercising your creativity and ultimately only stymie you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are three common prescriptive thoughts that get in the way of your creativity and which you should dispel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

1. \u201cMy Work Must Be Novel\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gilbert claims that many people feel their work must be totally novel to be worth making. This aspiration is what kills creativity for many artists. But it\u2019s nearly impossible to be novel anymore.<\/strong> Most ideas or concepts have already been executed in some way. <\/strong>There have been, for instance, many different parodies of the Lord of the Rings books and films.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, writes Gilbert, all other executions of a concept will be different from yours. You bring a specific sensibility and worldview that make your idea unique. While there are indeed dozens of Lord of the Rings spoofs, each of them is unique because each creator\u2019s sense of humor and perspective on the original work is different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilbert says that when, instead of trying to be original, you try to be genuine\u2014try to best express how you really feel through your unique lens\u2014you create work that is interesting and will resonate with others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilbert\u2019s Inconsistent Use of the Word \u201cIdea\u201d<\/strong>

Here, Gilbert uses the word \u201cidea\u201d in a way that seems contradictory to her use of the word in Chapter 2. She said previously that there were many ideas floating around the universe, searching for people to make them manifest. Yet now, she seems to assert that there are actually only a few limited ideas floating around the universe (and most of them have already been executed). 

Perhaps the easiest way to reconcile these two descriptions is to say that there are many duplicate or closely related ideas in existence<\/strong>. This would explain why it\u2019s hard to be totally novel despite a proliferation of ideas being out there.

It may also make sense to broaden the conception of what an \u201cidea\u201d needs to look like or contain. An idea may not need to be fully fleshed out; perhaps it can just be \u201cLord of the Rings parody.\u201d The \u201cLord of the Rings parody\u201d idea can visit many people over many years, yielding many different parodies. In this way, just one \u201croot\u201d idea can spawn many different similar yet unique ideas<\/a>.

In any case, Gilbert\u2019s definition of an idea is somewhat nebulous, leaving room for multiple interpretations. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2. \u201cMy Work Must Help Other People\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another way Gilbert thinks you can limit your creativity is by feeling that your work needs to be helpful to others, politically relevant, or otherwise \u201cimportant.\u201d <\/strong>This approach always ends up backfiring. Those consuming your work sense that you\u2019re trying to fulfill some external expectation rather than express a genuine feeling or experience. This renders your work less resonant, writes Gilbert, because it does not come from a place of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Need to Help and the Savior Complex<\/strong>

The need to help others through your creative work that Gilbert describes is similar to a psychological phenomenon called the savior complex, or white knight syndrome. This is the compulsion to help others to feel good about yourself<\/a>. People with savior complexes often exacerbate problems they\u2019re determined to solve because they lack the required expertise or skillset to solve them. They also stifle the growth of those they\u2019re helping by keeping them from coming up with solutions to problems. In the end, helping others to receive external validation\u2014even in creative work, as Gilbert suggests\u2014typically will not help anyone, least of all the helper. 

Advice on how to counter the effects of a savior complex revolves around changing your self-perception<\/a> and your perception of your role in the world. Understand that you can only really help yourself<\/a>: Everything outside you is out of your control. Plus, your own life probably isn\u2019t perfect, either, so why not work through your problems before tackling those of others? <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

3. \u201cMy Work Must Be Lofty\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A final way in which Gilbert feels you might stymie your creativity is by thinking your work must be \u201clofty,\u201d \u201chigh-minded,\u201d or \u201cworthy.\u201d It\u2019s a waste of time to try to meet some vague standard for \u201cworthy\u201d work, and you should instead just create what you want to create<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilbert continues by saying that there\u2019s no such thing as \u201chigh\u201d or \u201clow\u201d creation; there\u2019s just creation. When people draw a line between highbrow and lowbrow, it\u2019s merely a subjective distinction. Work that someone condemns as philistine might be lauded as a tremendous accomplishment by someone else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: The distinction between \u201chigh\u201d and \u201clow\u201d art to which Gilbert alludes has been widely debated<\/a> and is in constant flux. In the past, the line between high and low art was drawn<\/a> between works that were created purely for aesthetics\u2014a painting, for instance\u2014being high, and works that served a purpose, such as a chest of drawers, being low. But over time, the utilitarian came to be regarded as high art: A beautifully decorated box or piece of furniture might today be considered high art. If \u201clow,\u201d utilitarian work can eventually become \u201chigh\u201d art, Gilbert\u2019s assertion that it\u2019s pointless to try to be \u201chighbrow\u201d seems valid.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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