Defiance

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“Creativity is an act of defiance. You’re challenging the status quo. You’re questioning accepted truths and priniciples. You’re asking three universal questions that mock conventional wisdom:

Why do I have to obey the rules?

Why can’t I be different?

Why can’t I do it my way?

…Every act of creation is also an act of destruction or abandonment. Something has to be cast aside to make way for the new.

…So pick a fight – with the system, the rules, your rituals, even your everyday routines.”

Twyla Tharp in “The Creative Habit”

Food for thought. She may be right. Every time a country is conquered by a despot, it is the creatives and scholars that are rounded up and hung. They know where the defiance is apt to come from.

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