Creative work means starting something with just an idea and the end result in mind. You then creatively work your way through the middle to bring that idea to life.
The end result, as most of us would think, could be a painting, a piece of art, or a book, etc.
But, what we don’t commonly think, is it can also be a piece of software, a simple tool, or any other work that started with just an idea and ended as a physical or digital product.
We have to start doing more creative work to solve many local and global problems—starting with just the idea and the end result in mind.
The standard systems are failing in many places. Expensive education systems are turning out students to an economy that can’t provide enough jobs. Global warming, climate change, and other geopolitical uncertainties all need new levels of creative work to bring about better change.
However, change will be hard to bring, just by repeating standard practices.
The standard and the old have to slowly fade away to make way for the creative and the new.
We are all capable of doing creative work. We have ideas and end results in mind, but are unwilling to take the risk.
We all look for prescriptions (standards), when we actually need to look for the non-standard and the creative new.
The creative is the real new that will shape and define our current era for all future generations.