We are not.
Who we are right now.
Forever.
We are not who we are right now forever.
Thank God.
Especially as Creatives, we can't be locked into one way of doing what we do indefinitely. Because we grow we change we meet new people we hear new things we learn new things our brains make new connections our brains play around with these new connections and BAM.
In the spirit of the coming holiday, we adopt different masks, different identities, as we grow confident in our super powers.
We are not now.
Who we were.
A week ago.
Or a month or two ago. Or a year.
We level up, is what I'm getting at.
Oh sure, we obviously get better throughout our careers bit by bit. But there do come times when our experience builds to a critical mass and we, yeah.
We level up.
I worked with a producer for a good chunk of my life who's aware of the leveling up that transpired in my professional career.
And when it transpired.
That leveling up's a helluva thing, by the way. You're a different Creative with different superpowers and a different Creative identity, in a way.
You don't roll the way you previously rolled.
You're confident in a way you weren't.
And you're brain's different. Wired differently.
Thank God.
A few days ago, I noticed a fellow creative had leveled up and suggested they take another pass at something they'd done before they leveled up.
Why? they asked.
Because you're a different person I said.
No idea why, by the way. They just are. And this person, this different person will approach the same work from a higher elevation with a different skill set and a different mind set.
We all have access to the same tools, of course. It's how we use those tools that pins us to a specific level of ability and creative prowess. And on such occasions we sense that leveling up, it's completely worthwhile to visit, re-visit our latest work from a previous level.
Because that work, too, can level up.
It can.
Thank God.
😊
