Why creative people need empty space
There is a strange pressure that follows creativity these days. We're encouraged to fill every spare moment with purpose. If we're not making it we should be planning. If we're not planning, we should be promoting. If we're not promoting we should be learning, networking, posting, replying, or finding the next opportunity. Even our hobbies can begin to feel like another item on an ever growing to-do list. Somewhere along the way, we've started believing that creativity is something we have to chase. But I wonder if we have got it the wrong way around. Perhaps creativity has always preferred to find us when we have little room left for it. Some of my favourite ideas haven't arrived whilst sitting at my desk trying to think of them. The majority of my ideas come from conversations or observations. They have appeared on the school run, or watching the shadows from the trees in my garden. My favourite place to be is then I'm not actually working, but sat on the...
