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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
~~ John Updike ~~

The key is to get involved in an activity you are passionate about, no matter what that activity may be, so long as that activity is legal. When you are engaged in an activity you are passionate about, you will naturally want to know and learn more and more about it so that you can it right or better. That in turn would challenge, enhance and expand your creativity.

The challenge that most people face is that the activity they are passionate about may not, at least initially, generate enough income to live by. The way around this problem that is most commonly used is to get a “job” on the side to sustain yourself financially until the activity you are passionate about starts generating enough income.

It may also be that you are passionate about your job. In that case, you are amongst a few of the lucky ones as many studies show that most people don’t even like their jobs let alone being passionate about their jobs. They are working on jobs because they have to. That indeed is a terrible waste of human creativity.

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