This episode of The Visionist is an audio deep dive of the entire essay, brought to you by NotebookLM.
The From Make-Believe to Must Achieve: How Adulting Killed Our Creativity (And Our Ideas) Essay is a resounding wake-up call making people everywhere question everything – and finally take action on executing the ideas that matter.
This essay explores how creativity becomes collateral damage entering adulthood - as the celebration of spontaneous creativity (What if?) is replaced by the demands of productivity and performance (What’s the ROI?) - and how we get it back.
You can read and follow along with the text version of the essay at www.thecreativityessay.com.
Our immediate, and always running, vehicle for change is executing our ideas.
We have to give ourselves the permission, and have the audacity, to never stop dreaming, ideating and executing our ideas until the world in front of us is our vision, actualized.
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