Creative Permission

Most people do not stop creating because they run out of ideas. They stop because they decide their ideas are not good enough. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we learn that making things requires justification — a purpose, an audience, a standard of quality.

But the act of making something — anything — is valuable on its own. A doodle that goes nowhere. A melody hummed in the shower. A sentence written in the margins of a notebook. These are not failed attempts at art. They are the art.

The permission to create badly is the most important creative tool you will ever own.