We are always living and working within some sort of tension between limitations and creativity. Some of the self help books I ve read have given me the feeling that if I just followed their suggested techniques my creativity would flow painlessly. I'm not finding real life works like that.
Restrictions are here to stay.
Creative moments can be fleeting when there are so many demands on our time. One can easily come to believe that restrictions are the enemy. But I am beginning to think about them in a new way. Research has shown that tension itself is not bad, it is a matter of degree. Even our delight with a beautiful sunset has a degree of tension to it.