"Creativity gets easily crowded out by competing life demands, stress, and multitasking. It helps to think of creativity as essential to your well-being, just like sleep and exercise. Creativity thrives on wandering, openness, and low pressure. Life's stream of competing demands can deprive the creative mind of the oxygen it needs to flourish. According to one study, 78% of artists have other jobs and well over 40% of nonfiction writers say they lack the time they want to write."
"Writing creatively has always been a part of my own life, a vital energy source for my roles as a father, husband, and psychologist. But I notice it often takes a back seat to other responsibilities, falling to the bottom of my to-do list despite its status as a core value. When you find your creativity sidelined, how do you bring it back to center? First we need to better understand what's getting in the way."
Competing life demands, stress, and multitasking frequently crowd out creative work, leaving artists and writers short on time. Creative energy can be drained by rote, rushed, or repetitive activities, high stress, fatigue, and fragmented schedules. Procrastination commonly emerges because creative tasks are open-ended, effortful, and self-evaluative. Assessing stress, fatigue, roteness, and fragmentation can reveal practical changes, such as shifting creative time to mornings or batching chores to reduce interruptions. Building a creativity foundation requires protecting low-pressure, wandering time and reducing multitasking to allow focus, openness, and replenishment for sustained creative practice.
Read at Psychology Today
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