August 16, 2025
Greg, Alessandra, Devin, Shadows Pub, Hillary, Bobby B
If you could design your own “School of Creativity,” what classes or experiences might you include?
Today's crew answered a simple question:
If you could design your own School of Creativity, what would you teach and how would people learn?
The crew explored learning styles, program design, safety in learning, mentorship, mixed media delivery, and even angel investing as a creative path.
The theme:
creativity flourishes when people can choose how they learn, feel safe to explore, and have access to both wisdom and practical tools.
Back-to-school season isn’t just for kids. Today the team reframed “school” as a flexible, human-centric space where curiosity leads and structure supports.
August 16, 2025
Greg, Alessandra, Devin, Shadows Pub, Hillary, Bobby B
If you could design your own “School of Creativity,” what classes or experiences might you include?
Today's crew answered a simple question:
If you could design your own School of Creativity, what would you teach and how would people learn?
The crew explored learning styles, program design, safety in learning, mentorship, mixed media delivery, and even angel investing as a creative path.
The theme:
creativity flourishes when people can choose how they learn, feel safe to explore, and have access to both wisdom and practical tools.
Back-to-school season isn’t just for kids. Today the team reframed “school” as a flexible, human-centric space where curiosity leads and structure supports.
Date: May 10, 2025
How do you deal with creative envy when it happens?
Creative envy is the feeling of admiration toward someone else's artistic work, ideas, or talent, often mixed with a desire to achieve similar originality or success. It can be a source of motivation to improve and explore new creative paths, but if unmanaged, it may cause self-doubt, resentment, or halt creativity altogether.
In brief, creative envy involves:
Greg:
“We all have different talents and different skills… But we can also learn and be kind and gentle to ourselves. Kindness is a big thing, right?”
Greg stresses the importance of recognizing individual strengths and practicing self-kindness when confronted with creative envy.
Alessandra:
“Creative envy is not jealousy. It’s just that I see someone living a creative life and I want some of that too.”
She clarifies that creative envy is about desire, not ill will, and shares how it once made her question her mental health.
Melonie:
“I don’t only have creative envy, I have getting things done envy... And sometimes I take motivation from it to see where I’m spending my time.”
Melonie highlights turning envy into practical motivation by evaluating personal habits and priorities.
Gray:
“Envy is an expression of an unmet need… What am I needing? Is it intrinsic or extrinsic?”
Gray encourages examining the root cause of envy to understand whether it arises from internal desires or external pressures.
Bobby B:
“There’s an element that’s rough for me… coming to terms with who I am and where I am.”
Reflecting on aging, Bobby talks about accepting limitations without resentment while acknowledging the changing nature of creative energy.
Ela:
“We each have our own pace… My pace might not be your pace, and that doesn’t mean one is better than the other.”
Ela reminds us to honor individual creative rhythms and timing.
Shadows Pub:
“I appreciate what others are doing… Sometimes I think about trying something new, but that’s about as far as it goes.”
Shadows shares a calm perspective of appreciating others’ creativity without feeling envy.
Devin:
“I get strong creative envy… So I approached the person and said, ‘I’m just so envious of you’… That really helped.”
Devin demonstrates how open communication can transform envy into support and accountability.
“In basketball, missing half your shots is not failure. It’s math. Getting in there and taking your shot—creative envy is a shot to take because it tells you what you need.”
How do you deal with creative envy? Share your thoughts at creativeworkhour.com. If you