Stop behaving, act like an idiot!

One of the things that most good-intentioned adults teach their children is… the importance of being sensible. Well.. sometimes you need to smash your sensible adult attitudes so that you can let the idiot in you, take control for a while.

Stop behaving and start creating!

Being sensible is usually guided by what you should do, not what you want to do! This is a terrible restriction and puts a wet blanket over all of your creative projects. Creativity needs to be expressed in an open field, not a toilet cubicle. If you have to, lock your door and pull down the blind so that you can behave like an idiot in private.

At first it seems difficult to break some of the restrictions that you were taught as a child. However, practice makes perfect, start misbehaving a few times and before long you will get very good at it.

Throw paint at the canvas. Scribble all over your paper, knit outrageous statements in your sweaters. Be the idiot that you always dreamed of being. Become the envy of sensible, polite society as they watch your creativity soar to new levels.

Stop being responsible and learn to behave like a lunatic in front of your creative project. Step out onto a limb and let yourself go! Who knows you might be a natural at it.