Creativity Central has a great article on how passion for something fuels creativity. Tarantino is an especially current example, but look at the creative geniuses of history. Are there any here who didn’t have a burning passion for what they were doing? For example:
- Picasso
- Mozart
- Beethoven
- Pollock
- etc.?
And aren’t periods of low productivity the same as those where passion is low? I’m thinking of John Lennon in particular. He had a creative spurt after the end of the Beatles, but then, for most of the latter half of the ’7os, he did nothing, but passion returned around 1980 when he produced two more wonderful albums before his untimely death.
A friend of mine, podcaster Cliff Ravenscraft, talks about “finding your passion” because that’s the way to happiness and success. Sometimes your passion finds you, but whatever — get together with your passion — invite your passion over for dinner and into your life — whether it’s painting, composing music, marketing, baseball or waste management. You’ll be more creative because you WANT to be.
