This week, the CE is celebrating World Creativity and Innovation Week. We’re highlighting all kinds of campus events and things to see with our map of Campus Creativity Hotspots. Check out things to do, see, make, and learn! We’re also gettin’ all kinds of creativity and innovation up in the blog. Each day this week, we’ll post about five key facets of creativity and innovation: inspiration, curiosity, passion, dedication, and reflection. Up today: dedication.
Dedication is often considered synonymous with “hard work,” but in my head, it’s a lot more than that. Dedication goes hand in hand with yesterday’s facet, Passion. Creative dedication, for me, is something that can only be achieved when you have a passion for what you’re doing. If you’re creating something you don’t really care about, how can you truly be dedicated? As a facet of creativity, dedication is that state in which you see nothing but your work, its beginning, middle, and end. You understand the path your characters will take, you see the photo before you shoot, you know the colors before you draw the picture. It’s more than hard work. It’s a pure state of mind, fresh as the summer breeze, in which every part of your brain is shaping your creation.
When I write, and I feel purely dedicated to my work, that is when I can pull together my inspiration and my curiosity with my passion and just truly create something. When someone is in that state of dedication, they’ve hit creative nirvana.