“I picked up painting because I wanted to be really bad at something.” That is what the journalist interviewing me told me today.

I love that. 

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Picking up something you suck at, is a great way of silencing the ego – and less ego is good for creativity. 

It echoes one of the messages I delivered in my speech at LEAP today: that creativity is not about “creating stuff” but about the joy of the creative process. 

How do you silence your ego?

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