{"id":1439,"date":"2019-05-06T15:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2021-06-05T20:46:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T20:46:37","slug":"creative-source-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"Creative source&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"A parent came in yesterday; a rather cool fellow. Ex-military, a drummer, a single dad with two young ladies he&#8217;s raising. He&#8217;s been following my stories of DIY exploration on Facebook. He told me about a bit of drama that unfolded last weekend. On a major evening. PROM NIGHT. FOR HIS DAUGHTER. AND THE CAR BREAKS DOWN. This is BAD folks. <br><br>\n\nHe&#8217;s telling me the story of the ordeal&#8230;and it was more than a bit stressful&#8230;BUT&#8230;.he fixed the car. So he tells his story, and then he adds, &#8220;And I open the hood, and I look at the parts I fixed, and they are still together!&#8221; <br><br>\n\nI reply, &#8220;This is where you get to say, &#8220;I gave the finger to the man.&#8221; And it feels good.&#8221; As in &#8220;I did that MYSELF and it worked out.&#8221; <br><br>\n\nI remember when a boyfriend watched over my shoulder while I did a brake job on the very first used Dodge Grand Caravan I ever owned. That thing went through brakes&#8230;.because&#8230;it&#8217;s a van. Hauling gear. So I decided to learn how to DIY the brake work. MYSELF. NO HELP, just watchful eyes in case I made a mistake. <br><br>\n\nI finished, and then I got in, burnished the brakes, and drove it. And it WORKED. <br><br>\n\nAND IT WORKED ALL WEEK&#8230; <br><br>\n\nAND ALL MONTH&#8230;and yeah, you get the idea. <br><br>\n\n&#8220;I did that AND IT WORKED OUT!!&#8221; <br><br>\n\nI was so excited. <br><br>\n\nOver time, I came to find that empowerment really is the same high&#8230;the same force&#8230;behind that creativity that artists feel. Taking control of your environment, doing for yourself, and creating something unique. In art, you are creating something that might be unique to you&#8230;you uniquely get to say with your own voice if you&#8217;ve done the work to develop it. Something no one else can do, in your own style. And hopefully something that pushes your boundaries. BUT it&#8217;s the same rush of creation. <br><br>\n\nObviously, it doesn&#8217;t ALWAYS feel that way. Nor is it necessarily convenient. Just like this fellow&#8230;sometimes the opportunity arrives at an inconvenient moment. I had a wedding performance a few years back. I had just loaded the truck with my amp and instruments. So I went into the house to get my formal wear on. I had just put on the evening gown for this wedding gig&#8230;I come back out and the 4Runner&#8217;s rear door glass mechanism broke. I&#8217;m staring at the truck going&#8230;right now, really??!! <br><br>\n\nI really don&#8217;t need to feel the annoyance of &#8220;I gotta fix this after I manage to lower the glass and get my rig out so I can play a wedding.&#8221; The 4Runner played nice (as it usually does) and let us in without any craziness&#8230;just had to physically help the truck get the glass up and down by lifting the glass. That being said&#8230;it was all fixed the next day. <br><br>\n\nBut that value is there&#8230;and there creativity in fixing. <br><br>\n\nMy family may not have been artists, but I grew up around creative problem-solving. And that&#8217;s all the same power source. Sewing, gardening, coding, fixing a car when you don&#8217;t have &#8220;all the parts&#8221;, and you have to make them&#8230;literally&#8230;.you get the idea. To be clear on what this reference means&#8230;I watched my dad make new brake lines for my Bronco II when the original lines rusted through and failed. Another time I made one working printer out of two broken ones. Creative problem-solving. <br><br>\n\nIt was great to see this parent feeling empowered after being forced to solve a scenario outside his comfort zone. It&#8217;s all coming from the same source&#8230;.that creative energy inside us. It just takes practice at using it in different scenarios (not just confining it to the stereotype of the &#8216;arts&#8221;, and then you&#8217;ll see that it manifests wildly through multiple areas in your life. Which is how some people are wildly multi-talented&#8230;&#8221;Renaissance people&#8221;, if you would. They let that energy flow freely through all their skillsets. AND they keep asking questions with a growth mindset&#8230;which usually keeps in a growth state. Anyone can get better at this. Learn to be comfortable working in the state of being uncomfortable because it is forcing growth. Meaning&#8230;throw yourself into situations that confront your fears or challenge you on topics you know little about. Make friends with the unfamiliar. 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