How Creative Are You?
So we went to my Uncle Clem’s house to visit with my cousins. He’s recently been blessed with his first grand-daughter and she and her parents were visiting from New York this week. That’s really neither here nor there though.
We began to talk about Apple and Steve Jobs, how innovative a person he was and debate about how long we will continue to see his direct impact on the Apple brand before the first non Steve product is released. During this conversation a cousin of mine went into how Steve, and other creative minds in the past, was known for doing LSD. I have no idea if this is true but it’s relevance to this post is in no way to speak negatively about his genius or discredit him in anyway.
So Uncle Clem starts to go in on how that’s also very common with musicians (which he and his brother - my popops are/were). And how very creative minds often have problems taking the creativity farther than before without experiencing “Nirvana” as he called it. That they create better when on “different mental planes”. All the while we’re cracking up over what he’s saying and finally I ask, “Uncle how CREATIVE are you?”
We roared with laughter when he responded, “I use to be creative. I’m not creative anymore.”
I love my family.
