I think about habits so much. For years through my own journaling habit, I’ve been experimenting mad scientist style on how creativity is influenced by habit exploring.
In my self-growth in maintaining a visual journal practice, I connected with the author of Atomic Habits, James Clear’s definition of a habit. He shares that, “Habits are the small decisions you make and actions you perform every day.”
"Every action you take is a vote for the person you wish to become." - James Clear
This podcast was a quick dive into his work on habits, Building atomic habits with James Clear | ReThinking with Adam Grant
As someone who wants to live a creative life (and a fan of little-c daily creativity already) habits for creativity are an integral component of building one’s own creative process. In my teaching practice, this step is third in my efforts to connect students to their creativity.
So before I dive into step three, let’s do a little lesson review.
Lesson One: What is creativity?
It's important to me that my students’ definition of creativity is continuously expanding. This invitation is essential for students’ connection to their creativity. When you open up & acknowledge that creativity is NOT just visual art you are more open-minded to all sources in one’s daily life. Because, we are all artists.
Lesson Two: What makes you feel creative?
I dig into so much research here in understanding this conceptual idea to one’s own creative light - like Kaufman and Beghetto’s Four C Model of Creativity and Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Theory.
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