Being creative requires taking risks - by Henrik Karlsson

substack.com · 2,649 words · saved by 1 readers

When children learn to draw, they tend to make more and more interesting images for several years until around age five, when they learn to be boring.

When children learn to draw, they tend to make more and more interesting images for several years until around age five, when they learn to be boring. The multicolored hedgehogs with 47 legs give way to a series of established forms and colors, like stick figures, pastel green grass, and houses with triangular roofs. The wild diversity is gone. From now on, it’s crude, habitual symbolism. Most people never relearn how to draw anything interesting again. This tends to happen in all domains of our lives. We figure out how to do things “well enough” and then get stuck. One way to think about…

Being creative requires taking risks - by Henrik Karlsson

related reading