Manifestos on Creativity and Growth

Hugh MacLeod lists a number of ideas on how to be creative, supplemented by very interesting cartoons sketched by the author. Some of my favorite tips include:

6. Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.

25. You have to find your own schtick.

30. The hardest part of being creative is getting used to it.

In a similar vein, Bruce Mau listed out about 43 statements that form "An Incomplete Manifesto For Growth." Some favorites from this list...

1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

9. Begin anywhere. John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.

16. Collaborate. The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.

33. Take field trips. The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.

43. Power to the people. Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can't be free agents if we’re not free.