Creativity and Your Environment
How does your environment influence your creativity?
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Our environment plays a massive role in our ability to create. We can feel completely stifled or creatively inspired by our surroundings. When your environment is a major aspect that fuels your creative strength, it can become one of your biggest tools to expand upon your creativity!
Your environment will help you:
Find inspiration from your surroundings
Determine your core needs and values
Cultivate empowering situations
And so much more!! So, if want to empower your creativity, reflecting on your environment is a great place to acknowledge your creative progression throughout your life, and a wonderful manner to see how it can continue to grow!
How Environment Fuels Creativity
Your environment is a huge element to expand your creative inspiration and expression. There are a few ways that you can determine whether your environment fuels your creative strength. Ask yourself these questions:
Do I feel inspired when I am outside?
Do I feel drained in dark rooms?
Do I feel more creative in the morning or at night?
Do I enjoy working with others or working alone?
All of these questions surround environmental factors, and how you answer them can help you to customize your work spaces, and creative spaces to continue empowering your creativity. When you know when, where, and why you feel so inspired in certain situations, you can learn how to recreate them in any location, space, or environment in order to empower your strengths! These questions helped me to learn the following three lessons:
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Where I thrive
By examining the locations where you find the most inspiration and creative drive, you can easily discover what elements contribute to your creativity thriving. Meaning, where you produce the best work, and when you will be the most effective with your creative strengths.
Where I struggle
On the other side, you will also learn where and why you struggle the most. You will learn how to notice when you are becoming frustrated and why you are feeling that way. The awareness of your environment will become easily apparent when you focus on the differences in your productivity levels and your creative flow.
How to adapt during the struggles
Knowing these two sides of your creative environment, you will know exactly how to make the changes necessary to fuel your creative strengths rather than take away from them. This tool has helped pull me out of so many ruts, blocks, and feelings of burnout, and it will definitely do the same for you! It is a reliable, efficient, and effective way of inspiring creativity and ensuring your creative strengths continue to grow.
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Becoming more aware of my environment and how it impacted my creativity became a life-changing aspect of my creative growth and continues to provide me with new opportunities for development and collaboration on a regular basis. And it is the best feeling to know that it all came from a genuine, authentic, and bold place within me!
I hope this breakdown helped you understand how your environment can motivate and inspire your creativity as well! Your creative strengths will continue to grow as long as you continue to challenge them and learn from your surroundings.
Comment below your thoughts on examining your environment to empower your creativity! I’d love to hear more about your creative journey and discover more ways in which you can continue to support your creative strengths!
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