# Creative Process **Domain:** Creativity / Human Development / Practice **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **The Creative Process is the movement by which an intuition, image, question, or need becomes a form that can be tested, revised, shared, and used.** ## Mechanism and Practice Creation depends upon psychological safety, practical scaffolding, iteration, and tolerance for imperfect beginnings. Ideas become real through repeated contact between imagination and material constraint. ## Relationships [[wiki/Creativity|Creativity]] · [[wiki/Originality|Originality]] · [[wiki/Agency|Agency]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “Every act of creation follows the same birthing process. A song, a company, a family, or a hobby begins as an inner thought that is given form and brought into the world. Learning to build the scaffolding for ideas is the core technology of creators.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Returning to Your Power by Facing Fear and Becoming the Creator, Part 1 - Livestream (Dec 2015)* [[reminders/Creativity/Build the Scaffolding for Ideas by Bryant McGill|Build the Scaffolding for Ideas by Bryant McGill]] > “There is a tipping point beyond fear where creativity returns. Once people feel safe enough, they begin to think about possibilities instead of impossibilities, and doors that were always there become visible again.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Courage, Creative Risk, and Moving Through Fear - Livestream (Dec 2018)* [[reminders/Creativity/Creativity Returns Beyond Fear by Bryant McGill|Creativity Returns Beyond Fear by Bryant McGill]] > “Pressure can freeze the mind. Harsh demands create a kind of performance anxiety that blocks creative problem-solving. Relaxing expectations allows the mind to function freely.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Dated Full Capture — The Productive Rhythm of Action and Incubation - Livestream (Mar 2016)* [[reminders/Creativity/Pressure Freezes Creative Problem-Solving by Bryant McGill|Pressure Freezes Creative Problem-Solving by Bryant McGill]] > “Creation is a kind of birth. An artist reaches within, finds something of value, labors to bring it forth, and offers it to the world. Whatever a person creates carries the value of the soul that made it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Inner Wealth - Livestream (Aug 2015)* [[reminders/Creativity/Creation Carries the Value of Its Maker by Bryant McGill|Creation Carries the Value of Its Maker by Bryant McGill]]