Together In Electric Dreams

  A brief history of creativity (in about 3 minutes 😂). Well this is a MAMMOTH task I set myself, how to condense the essence of creativity down into it's component parts. Love me a challenge 🤣 Over the next 6 weeks I'm going to be breaking down the art and science of creativity for you and how we can leverage it to find and own our unique voice. Todays Newsletter is covering the history of creativity AND the ways you can treat it as a process to get creatively stronger. Like flexing a muscle. We are all born creative, as children we are allowed (and encouraged) to interpret the world around us and understand our place in it. It’s a biological imperative. Our inherent curiosity allows us to construct our worldview. Think about how we are encouraged to take our first steps through that constant learning process of failure and yet somehow as adults it's taboo to celebrate failure, it's almost frowned upon. Children are inherently more creative than adults (I wrote about

  Shimmy shimmy ko ko pop, shommy shimmy ya, with those immortal lines I was sucked in. I remember vividly the first time I saw Big starring Tom Hanks. For those of you unfamiliar with the plot it’s fairly simple. SPOILER ALERT After a wish turns 12-year-old Josh Baskin into a 30-year-old man (played by Tom Hanks), he heads to New York City and gets a low-level job at MacMillen Toy Company. A chance encounter with the owner (Robert Loggia) of the company leads to a promotion testing new toys. Soon a fellow employee, Susan Lawrence (Elizabeth Perkins), takes a romantic interest in Josh. However, the pressure of living as an adult begins to overwhelm him, and he longs to return to his simple, former life as a boy. It also involved a really creepy looking Zoltare wish machine. What's fun with playing with a robot that turns into a building? It’s got a beautiful message about growing up too quickly and how by embracing and staying young we can achieve great things. See Josh absolutely