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Courage and creativity

radiantPainting September 27th

Creativity and courage. Very different or very similar? A lot of people consider themselves to be courageous and some others consider themselves as being creative. For some other people, it's am unregulated mixture of both. For some people, either or or both of these qualities are among there core or top strengths. However, no one ever talks about the courage to be creative. Creativity is a relative concept. That means everyone has a different way they view creativity. However, no one can deny that it takes a lot of courage to be creative. To be willing to share that creativity with the world irrespective of people's opinions. To be able to risk not being creative at all or not being original. To be able to risk finding no inspiration at all. 


Courage and creativity are two sides of the same coin. Courageous creativity and creative courage are however not the same thing. The difference is very little but very present as well. Can you spot it?

One means to express courage in a creative way and the other means to express creativity in a courageous way.

Which do you think is which and when have you experienced or practised either or both?
Courage and creativity are part of the values taught in the Inner Development Goals Course, you can learn more about more such values in the course here:

https://www.7cups.com/forum/academy/AcademyPrograms_2311/InnerDevelopmentGoalsCourse_318284/
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Tinywhisper11 September 27th

@radiantPainting in not very courageous as a person. But how I learned to draw and do art, was I guess courageous. Due to disabilities I have limited movement, also missing most of my fingers, so a few years ago I couldn't pick up a pencil. But I tried and tried and wouldn't give up. Now I do all different kinds of art and crafts 😁 I'm very proud of myself ❤❤

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radiantPainting OP September 27th

@Tinywhisper11

I'm very proud of you too❤️❤️

Would you teach me to draw? I'm limited to less than stick figures if that's possible 😅

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hopefulDew435 September 29th

@radiantPainting

This is quite an insightful post, so thank you for that! I particularly like that you pointed out that no one talks about the courage to be creative because that is definitely true. 

I'm proud to say that I'm at a point in my life where I do my utmost best to practice both courage and creativity. Even though I fear people's opinions sometimes, I push myself towards expressing who I am creatively, whether it's through my writing, artworks, cooking, etc, and I truly recognize that for courage; the ability to do such things in spite of fear.