{"id":1163,"date":"2014-01-14T13:11:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2014-01-14T01:50:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T01:50:14","slug":"5-reasons-to-be-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/5-reasons-to-be-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons to Be Creative"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I overheard a conversation with an adult family member yesterday. He was lamenting the sad reality of a <\/span>creative’s<\/a> existence. You’ve probably heard it before:<\/span><\/p>\n

“They’re starving, and all artists starve.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Funny how those who complain about the creative’s plight, often are big admirers of art (life<\/strong>, parenting, music, painting, cinema, etc.).\u00a0So what gives? Is it really about starving and doing without? Is it really a dance with insanity to do what only seems to make sense to you?<\/p>\n

As someone who tried to close and lock the door to my creative wiring, the wiring never goes away. I finally accepted it and learned to celebrate it. That was a crucial awakening.<\/p>\n

For those who say retirement, promotions and prestige are the keys to a fulfilling life, that game is already been called.<\/p>\n

Here are my 5 reasons to be creative:<\/p>\n

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  1. The age of the doer is over. Just like many types of change, an age ends before the mass knows and feels it.<\/li>\n
  2. You were created to be creative. Not everyone will be a Miles Davis<\/a> or Daniel Day-Lewis,<\/a> but everyone has it in them if they are courageous enough to act on it.<\/li>\n
  3. Our collective wellbeing is calling out for this-desperately.<\/li>\n
  4. The status quo won’t seem so appealing.<\/li>\n
  5. Living over the sun<\/a> will make a lot more sense.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What are some of your reasons for being creative?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I overheard a conversation with an adult family member yesterday. He was lamenting the sad reality of a creative’s existence. You’ve probably heard it before: “They’re starving, and all artists starve.” Funny how those who complain about the creative’s plight, often are big admirers of art (life, parenting, music, painting, cinema, etc.).\u00a0So what gives? Is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,5,123,6,7],"tags":[76,232,1489,1249,431,736,823,180,92,39,75,138,1479,119,240,17,42],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-entrepreneur-advice","category-leadership-development","category-learning","category-wellbeing","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-artists","tag-creative","tag-creativity","tag-daniel-day-lewis","tag-epic-living","tag-eric-pennington","tag-health","tag-life","tag-life-choices","tag-miles-davis","tag-over-the-sun","tag-self-help","tag-well-being","tag-wellbeing-2","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}