Welcome to the golden age of creativity, your timing is perfect.

By Adam Zinzan

Art imitating Life? Life imitating Art? – how about Life will be Art. This is the emerging creative frontier in which new ways of living are being artfully designed. We are beginning to develop a selective disregard for tradition in favour of what makes sense. To abandon the dysfunction and monotony of established societal rolls and choosing instead to sculpt, paint, draft, weave and carve out lives of our own.

An era of creative freedom has begun that will make the renaissance look like preschool. Conventional methods are often so stymied and backwards that attempting anything else is encouraged and almost guaranteed to yield an improvement. So now is a great time for fearless experimentation. Its exactly the kind of risk-play that will help light our way forward as well as provide you with a lifetime of tuition-free education. Ahhh, Fresssh!

An important part of this ‘why-the-heck-not?’ attitude is to nurture the creative endeavours of others. When you encounter a fellow experimenter be kind. Give him or her the benefit of the doubt and give them room for their experiment to take place. The next time someone sings you a ditty when you were expecting an eight-and-a-half by eleven resumé, laser printed on white and set in nine point Helvetica for god’s sake give them a ring will you?

There is perhaps only one caveat to this new found freedom and I’m sure you know the feeling… our tendency to become overwhelmed when faced with infinite possibilities. I have come to find that the antidote to this is simply to do anything; do what comes to you first, do what feels right and do it now. Don’t give yourself much time to think it over and don’t worry too much about what other people think (duhh).