Would you like a dollop of creativity with that?

The urge to create is universal. Most people would really like to write a great song, shoot a fascinating video, start a tear-away business success, become a famous stand-up comedian, or all the above and many more…

Creativity opens the door to business success. Darwinians will understand that evolution of the species (winners vs losers) in a business sense has in recent years been rapidly concentrated into months, not years, not decades. Goodbye free-to-air TV, goodbye strip shopping centers, hello home delivery, hello climate angst yada yada….

Successful entrepreneurs inevitably gloss over the years of sweat, toil and failures which led to their ‘overnight’ success. And for every startup success story investigation includes a graveyard of discarded relics.

Two of Australia’s ‘overnight’ tech successes, Atlassian and Canva were mere innocent startup hopefuls in 2001 and 2012 respectively. Any chance of a loan?

Creativity is the fairy dust that fires the imagination and is the birthplace of innovation. I’m sure all of us get the urge to create but we find our daily routine has no space for it. ‘How we spend our days is how we spend our lives’. This quote comes from a codger who’s ‘bin around.

Luck is the big determinant of success for startups. The right idea at the right time, a believable business model, sophisticated investors who leave the running of the business to the founder, absence of immediate competitors. Good luck!

So far so good, but then it gets down to the grunt work of building a business, finding investors, hiring and managing people, etc, etc…

Good luck!

The last few bits sound like hard work. So let’s just stick with the fairy dust for now, shall we?

Talking about creativity is way different to actually inspiring its emergence. Every single one of us has the same creative potential – rich, poor, educated or not. Australia’s education system tells those kids with innocent creative flair to shut up and recite the shite you’ve been told.. Hello ‘bad’ behavior. Creative, different kids are discouraged, not encouraged. Sad.

Right now, you’re wondering what I’m banging on about.

Your correspondent has a history of a few successes but many failures in the creative world for which he is grateful. ‘Failures make him stronger’ according to his one person cheer squad. Thanks, Anna.

Your correspondent also truly believes that the budding creative would be wise to hang out with the inspiring types usually found at gatherings at Spring Bay Mill.

Want to know how we can help curate events that come with many large dollops of creativity? Drop me a line at graeme@springbaymill.com.