When we throw ourselves into our work—our professional work, the daily work that pays the bills and feeds and clothes us—we sometimes feel our capacity for creativity has shrivelled up.
Creativity means creating something that didn’t exist before.
Some jobs allow for that. You might not be writing the first draft of a new ‘Gatsby’ but you might create a new process for contract management, or an onboarding process for new joiners.
But to truly create, we want to combine our imagination and intellect.
Using both to convey ideas through books. Create a new world. Make characters clash and conflict and resolve. Show how to do something, better.
Don’t fret. Creativity can be recovered, and strengthened, through habit.