How I felt after watching the Tim Brown: Tales of creativity and play

This video blew my mind in so many ways. I'm fighting to scrap my brains off the walls. It made me realise how much I do not know about how to access my creativity and imagination. To be creative is to play. But to play, we have to defeat the adult behaviours and glorify our inner child.

The adults we are, are always apologetic about our wild ideas and our insufficient skills because we have the stigma that we aren't good enough. Thus, we are afraid to raise our ideas. This is because we are in a place of insecurity.

BUT not for a child. Children are more open to express their ideas and showcase their skills and abilities. At the prime of their innocence, they are secure in their capabilities even though it isn't extensive or (in an adult sense) worthy of praise. 

Creating a place where people can feel secure allows adults to enjoy sharing and raising their creative ideas. Many achieve this through altering the environment and the daily activities. These "conducive environment" allows one to be open to possibilities. 

After hearing about this it made me question my past, my learning journey and how my new life in NAFA would overcome this hurdle called creativity. Throughout my life, I realised that Asian families emphasise a lot about dampening the fun and increasing the practicality of our activities. To them, they feel that playfulness does not stimulate our ability to produce good grades. The way  Asian culture dictated our childhood directly affected our inability or hesitance to (re)awaken our inner child-liked creativity. The genuine raw creativity.

My learning journey was a road filled with restrictions. The planned out future of money and family has caused the Singapore education system to focus more on memorising than actual learning. They would rather teach us subjects that would "look good on paper" but not physically benefit and nourish us. They instructed us to follow the rules, fit in, think INSIDE the box. They unknowingly hindered our creativity and locked the inner child away. Don't get me wrong, people benefit from this system, but not us. The creatives. We have these unspoken rules that controls us and forces us to think minute and contain our creativity. 

This new journey in NAFA is one of rediscovery. To search deep in the dungeons of my soul. To find that inner child, hug it and reassure it that the we need him. That we still need his innocence and imagination to create. To open and expand his mind. To give him the keys to my hands and create again.

So this video really showed me how much I'm lacking in child-liked creativity. IT'S TIME! Time to free the lost inner child.