I never saw myself as a creative person. Maybe because I was always surrounded by people with striking talent.
From a psychoanalytic view, the opposite is more true. By denying my own creativity, I projected it onto others.
No surprise I valued talented people so highly and felt I understood them. Their struggles hurt me. Their wins lifted me.
For decades I believed my gift was helping others realize their talent. Their job was to create. Mine was to remove the barriers that blocked their mysterious process.
Only recently did I begin—blushing, a bit embarrassed—to admit there is a creator in me. It’s funny. Others see it clearly. I don’t.
While building my course, I shared ideas with founders. “What’s better—this or that?” I asked one of them. One of them looked surprised: “It’s your product. We’ll go with your call. You’re the creator.”
“Who? Me?”, I thought, stunned. He was right. No one knows what the course should be. Not even me. As it turned out, I was shaping it in real time—like clay made from lived experience—right in front of everyone.
Even now I’m surprised by this text… it wrote itself. So what did I do?
The same as always—removing the barriers that get in the way of the mysterious Process. Only now, in myself, not in others.
Helping yourself is harder. But just as interesting.
And you? Do you see yourself as a creative person?
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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