What's a way to enhance your creative life? Provide yourself a protected space and time to do this work. At the World Creativity Forum John Cleese spoke of the importance of having strong boundaries, of carving out a space and a time to do creative work without interruption. I might be able to do my taxes or balance my checkbook and be interrupted. But if I'm writing a dialogue for a play or trying to visualize what a dozen people are doing at one time on the stage, such interruptions can be deadly.
Cleese goes on to say there may be other people in the community, teachers included, who may not put a high value on creativity and will subsequently tend to squelch it. A line in his speech that stood out for me was: “Most people who have absolutely no idea what they are doing, have absolutely no idea they don’t know what they are doing.” It explains, says Cleese, among other things, Hollywood.
I certainly experience our rehearsals as such a haven, such a space and time to do creative work without interruption. I am able to, for the short time we're together each week, quiet the haranguing of the world.
Cleese goes on to say there may be other people in the community, teachers included, who may not put a high value on creativity and will subsequently tend to squelch it. A line in his speech that stood out for me was: “Most people who have absolutely no idea what they are doing, have absolutely no idea they don’t know what they are doing.” It explains, says Cleese, among other things, Hollywood.
I certainly experience our rehearsals as such a haven, such a space and time to do creative work without interruption. I am able to, for the short time we're together each week, quiet the haranguing of the world.
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