We're literally in the middle of what I'm calling The Great Adult Creativity Recession, and its impact runs deeper than what you see at the surface level.
Here's what's really happening: Society, and the demands of adulting, has convinced us to trade our creative power for predictable productivity.
We've replaced "what if?" with "what's the ROI?"
We've swapped innovation for imitation.
The result? An actual ideas desert where genuine breakthroughs have been replaced by an endless stream of safe, recycled concepts.
But the truly devastating part: Those transformational ideas you've been keeping hoarding to yourself? The ones you've dismissed as too bold, too different, too risky? They might hold the exact solutions our world desperately needs right now.
We have to execute our ideas.
I've written an unflinching analysis of how we landed in this creativity crisis and mapped out a clear path forward. This isn't just another think piece – it's a wake-up call and a practical roadmap for rediscovering your creative potential.
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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