Creativity has its downsides, but on balance it has served me extremely well over the years. Perhaps the biggest benefit (and curse) is that it’s pushed me to do some very unorthodox things, which has certainly made my life interesting.  Because the value of creativity is so strongly conditioned in me, if the majority of people are doing something, I almost automatically want to avoid it and do something else.

It usually takes a while for me to fully enter the highly creative flow state, but once I’m there I lose awareness of everything but the present moment and the ideas flowing through me. I forget who I am. I lose all sense of time... I often refer to these creative periods as “going to my cave.”... Creativity is an adventurous exploration of ideas. Some paths run in circles. Some are dead ends. Some lead to wonderful treasures. No single path has all the answers though. It’s the creative journey itself that matters.