Are you a Hypercreative?
If you are, here’s why that’s something to get excited about.
What's a Hypercreative?
Let me share a story that may help paint the picture.
As a child, I thought I wanted to be an inventor. Was I particularly brilliant, or good at building things? To this day, the answer is a resounding, no. But I can vividly remember feeling strong urges to create something new. These urges felt like a mixture of eagerness, excitement, anxiety, and even frustration because I knew I wanted to create something right then, but just didn’t know what. As a result I would make drawings, paint pictures, write poetry, short stories, anything I could get my hands on.
As I got older, the products of these inventive urges evolved from small tinkerings. Instead of making drawings that ended up in a drawer, I started putting them on bookmarks and book covers and selling them to my friends at school for fifty cents a pop. I went from writing poems in my composition notebook to putting them on greeting cards and selling them to family members during the holidays. Even though I was getting older, the giddiness that came with making something new never went away.
This is the feeling that brought me to where I am today. Chasing that giddy feeling, I found myself in the world of advertising where the goal is to make things and then show the masses what you’ve made (kind of sounds like cheating, right?). So now when I feel that urge to create something new, the results come in the form of new online campaigns, a digital platform, a blog, an in-depth documentary series.
Now, what makes me so special? Absolutely nothing. I know I’m not unique in these experiences. I’m sure a lot of you remember feeling this way growing up. Similar to a hyperactive child bouncing from wall to wall with boundless energy, no museum could hold your infinite ambition. You followed these experiences from childhood into creative careers, because you couldn’t do anything else even if you wanted to. Ideas are your currency, your way of life, and they always have been. There’s a story like this for all of you because you’re just like me. You’re a hypercreative.
Ideas are your currency, your way of life, and they always have been. There’s a story like this for all of you because you’re just like me. You’re a hypercreative.
Now, I must confess, I’m no writer. I’m just a young creative with too many ideas, too many creative friends, and one starting realization:
We live in a hypercreative society now.
That means as a hypercreative, you can affect things outside of just the creative world. You are changing the way companies hire, schools teach, brands sell, and the world turns. Never before has the world begged for your skillset and way of thinking as it does now. Because of you, there are new career paths that would never have existed twenty years ago. Gone are the days when a creative had to take a regular nine-to-five to pay the bills and express their creativity in the margins. You are today’s artists, entrepreneurs, problem-solvers, and free thinkers. So if you read this, and it sounds like you, then yes, you may be a hypercreative. And the world, now more than ever, is yours.