6 Ways Society is Failing to Raise Creatives But Needs Them the Most
It’s a paradox how society simultaneously stifles and depends on creative individuals.
Life often doesn’t make sense. We make sense of life by telling and consuming stories.
In 2006, I was in Kota, Rajasthan, India — a place where Indian kids go to prepare for the toughest entrance exams like IIT-JEE, Pre-Med Entrance Exams, AIEEE, etc. This place is all about extensive coaching institutions. IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) is the institute and JEE (Joint Engineering Examination) is the exam to enter these institutes.
I remember a Physics lecture about Lenz’s law — if you put a magnetic close to an electrical circuit, it creates a magnetic field around the electrical circuit, which pushes the magnet away.
In simpler terms, a new energy field is created which opposes the very reason (magnet), which created it.
Stories are how we make sense of the world that existed before us, which exists today, and the one which will exist tomorrow. Then, why do our parents, our neighbors, our so-called friends, and pragmatic people completely lose it when we express that we want to become artists, writers, painters, or want to get into any kind of creative endeavor?
