[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Self-understanding]], [[Self-expression]], [[Creativity]] - People: [[Ethan Hawke]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9Gek4V5Q --- ## Summary - [[You don't need permission to be creative, just like how you don't need permission to be yourself]]. - "[[If you get close to what you love, who you are is revealed to you, and it expands.]]" - "[[There is no path till you walk it]]". - [[Creativity is doing the what to answer the why]]. - "[[To express yourself you have to know yourself]]". - [[Do you. Be you.]] ## Notes - [[You don't need permission to be creative, just like how you don't need permission to be yourself]]. - "We're all a little suspect of our own talent". - "That's my job. I'm the poet, and I'm going to play the fool". - Paraphrasing Allen Ginsberg. - "The world is an extremely unreliable critic. So you have to ask yourself... Do you think human creativity matters?" - Creativity is needed when things are going wrong. - Creativity is self expression. Creativity is problem solving. [[Creativity is doing the what to answer the why]]. - "...that's when arts, not a luxury. It's actually sustenance. We need it." (Creativity during chaos). - "[[Human creativity is nature manifested in us.]]" - "To thrive... to express ourselves, we have to know ourselves." - [[Creativity is a language of curiosity]]. Creativity is doing something different. - To be creative is to try. [[To be creative is to be courageous]]. - "[[If you get close to what you love, who you are is revealed to you, and it expands.]]" - [[Explore differences to understand sameness]]. - To honestly express yourself is to exude a power that others can feel. - The admiration of expression isn't about the artifact or the individual, but rather the yearning or wanting to also express one's self - to be one's self. - "The pull of habit is so huge". - [[Do you. Be you.]] - Impress your individuality and allow the critic to follow. - "When you start a dialogue. This healing happens, you start to witness each other's common humanity". - "[[To express yourself you have to know yourself]]". - "[[There is no path till you walk it]]". - "[[Don't read the book that you should read, but you wanna read.]]" ## Original ![[Give yourself permission to be creative-1.jpg]] ![[Give yourself permission to be creative-2.jpg]]