Creativity is both the cause and

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Creativity is both the cause and the effect of zest in life.

One of the deepest joys we can get out of life is being creative because when we are creative, we experience the feeling of being God. God, as the creator of the universe, represents the original and supreme form of creativity. This great capacity of creation brings immense passion out of people, making them feel powerful like gods. That’s why artists need to fall in love repeatedly (certainly with different people). The strong zest induced by romantic love fires up artists’ creativity, providing them with bursting inspiration to produce artworks magically like gods. Parents with newborn babies experience these kinds of wonderous feelings too. Consequently, they are more motivated to work harder to create a better life for their babies and themselves. Therefore, creativity breeds zest for life and zest for life further produces more creativity. The relationship between creativity and passion is mutually causing and effecting.

There's almost a metaphysical joy that comes from being creative when we know how to be creative in the right ways. However, a lot of people are missing out on this creativity because most humans on this planet are not tapping into even 1 % of their creative potential.

The major culprit of stifling creativity is education. Our education is training children and young people to become citizens conforming to the country’s needs and rules. In the process, creativity is recognized in form but not really valued in practice, because our cultural tradition regards it as the most important virtue to follow the old, obey the authority and conform to the mainstream. Creative individuals, different from the majority, are to be the targets of criticism and even punishment. We ourselves are not creative enough and naturally, we don't know how to teach our children to be creative. Particularly after children go to school, the education system will gradually deprive them of their intrinsic powers of creativity through repeated practice, strict rules, exams based on rote learning and so on. If some people are creative, it's only through their sort of intuitive efforts that they do it. We don't have a rigorous processor teaching people how to be creative, how to find their creative niche, and what they want to be creative in all the different ways that creativity can manifest itself. This negative aspect of our education needs to be changed, but surely with great difficulty.

Actually, there are so many different ways to be creative. We can be creative in art, business, science and technology, programming, communicating with people, in public speaking…… There is an infinite number of ways to be creative. Even producing a child, raising him/ her, and seeing him/her become a healthy living being is a very practical and magical creative process.

Once we’ve found one area where we can exert our creativity. This is our way of honouring and appreciating the original mission of life. When we really appreciate it, it's not enough just to marvel at it with our eyes. We want to participate in it, to dive into the creative process thoroughly. The more we start to devote ourselves to this action of creativity, the more we start to see the miracle of life, which is so beautiful, wondrous, and mysterious that we would rather give up all others just to be immersed in it. This peak stage of life is exactly the zest for life.

As we get in touch with the magic of creativity, we start to respect and appreciate it so much that we even wish to devote and sacrifice our life to work on its behalf. And that's when our life becomes meaningful. That's when we are connected to the main artery of life, and then we start to be obsessed with it, sacrificing other stuff and working towards it every single day, full of delightful passion. When this happens, each of our days becomes precious, and meaningful in that it's a sacrifice we're making towards the miracle of life.

These kinds of great feelings have been experienced by generations of lovers, artists, inventors, scientists, businessmen, athletes, and so on and so forth. Anyone who has ever climbed up to life’s heights must have experienced this great selfless passion. The protagonist in The Moon and Sixpence is a case in point. Strickland gave up everything in his life, ignoring everything including his well-being just for the sake of painting. He painted, painted and painted, painting for the sake of painting. After he died, all that he painted became an invaluable heritage. The novel is partially based on Paul Gauguin. One of Gauguin's paintings, When will you get married? has remained the most expensive painting in the world, bid at the price of 300 million US dollars in 2015， creating a new record in the art market. Strickland's story depicted in The Moon and Sixpence is a meta-narrative for all successful artists.

While let’s take a look at the life of the majority of people, the uncreative ones. They just wake up and then run around, doing the normal things, like doing chores, paying bills, finishing what the bosses ask them to do, watching TV, playing games, etc.

Notice how different the “normal people’s” attitudes are from those of the creative abnormal ones. The former is disconnected from the beautiful, the wonderous, the divine, the miraculous, and the mystery. That's why people become bored or even disillusioned with life. That's why a lot of people become addicted to alcohol, cigarette, or electronic games. Because what joy can the normal kind of life be? How can you love life when you live in that way? Not positively constructive at all.

So to speak, you feel that you're living way below your full potential, and you should be unsatisfied with that kind of lifestyle. When you are not living at your edge. You are not in touch with the miracle of life and existence.

If you don't participate in life creatively, then it's like you're not living at all. Just like a zombie, Your life can't be exciting and wonderful.
Find your interest. Create something out of your life from scratch. That's the opportunity that life is affording you. That's a huge challenge. That’s a difficult struggle. It's not just pure positivity and pleasure that you get when you undertake this process. It requires serious work, but it is worth it.

To sum it up, creativity is not only the reason for passion but also the result produced by passion. Live with passion. Be creative! Explore the infinite potential life unfolds in front of you. That’s how we should enjoy life!

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创造是保持生命热情的因果

创造力既是生命热情的原因，也是生命热情的结果。

我们能从生活中获得的最深层次的快乐之一就是有创造的能力。当我们拥有创造力时，我们能够体验到身为上帝的感觉。上帝，宇宙的造物主，拥有最原始和最崇高的创造力。这种伟大的创造力能够激发出人的强烈激情，使他们自我感觉如神明般伟大。这就是为什么艺术家需要反复陷入恋爱（当然是和不同的对象）。浪漫爱情所迸发出的强烈热情能够点燃艺术家的创造力，为他们提供源源不断的灵感，使他们像神一样神奇地创作出美好的艺术品。迎来新生儿的父母也会体验到这种奇妙的、如神之作的感觉。因此，父母们才会焕发出更强的动力和使命感去努力拼搏，为了孩子能有一个更好的生活条件。由此可见，创造力孕育出对生活的热情，而对生活的热情又进一步滋生出更多的创造力。创造力和热情之间的关系是互为因果。

当我们知道如何以正确的方式进行创造时，就会有一种形而上的快乐如影随形。然而，很多人都错失了这种创造力，因为这个星球上的大多数人都没有挖掘出自身哪怕是1%的创造潜力。

扼杀创造力的罪魁祸首是教育。我们的教育正在训练儿童和年轻人成为符合国家需求和规则的公民。在这个过程中，虽然创造力在形式上得到了认可，但在实践中并没有得到真正的重视，因为我们的文化传统认为遵循旧的约定、服从权威的命令，符合顺应主流才是最重要的品德。有创造力的人，与大多数人不同，将成为众矢之的而被攻击甚至惩罚。我们自己没有养成足够的创造力，自然也不知道如何教导我们的孩子有创造力。特别是等孩子上学后，教育系统会通过反复练习、严格的纪律、基于死记硬背的考试等，逐渐剥夺孩子们与生俱来的创造力。如果有些人仍具备创造力，那也是通过他们依靠直觉，通过偏执的坚持和努力才达成的结果。我们教育缺乏一套优良的程序来教人们如何成为一个有创造力的人，找到符合自身特点的创造性定位，不同的人在创造力的表现方面各不相同。我们教育的这一严重缺陷亟待改变，但阻力重重。

事实上，发挥创造力的形式可以多种多样。在艺术、商业、科技、编程、与人沟通、公开演讲等方面都有无限种方式可以发挥创意。甚至生养一个孩子，看到一个健康活力生命体的成长，也是一个非常切实并神奇的创造性过程。

一旦找到一个可以发挥创造力的领域， 就算是找到了尊重和欣赏生命之原始使命的渠道。在这里，仅仅站在一边观察和赞叹是远远不够的。我们需要迫不及待地参与其中，彻底融入创造的整个过程。越是投身于这种创造性的行动，我们就越能感受到生命的奇迹：它是如此美丽、奇妙和神秘，以至于我们宁愿放弃其他一切，只为完全沉浸其中。这种生命的高峰体验恰恰就是对生命的热情。

一旦接触到创造的魔力，我们就开始非常尊重和欣赏它，甚至希望奉献和牺牲我们的生命来为它工作。这恰恰就是我们的生活开始变得有意义的时候。这时，我们与生活的主动脉息息相连，然后陷入一种沉迷状态，忘乎所以，每天为之努力而乐此不疲，充满了愉悦的激情。当这种情形发生时，每一天都会变得珍贵而有意义，因为这是我们为创造生命的奇迹所做的必要牺牲。

这种伟大的感情已经被一代又一代的恋人、艺术家、发明家、科学家、商人、运动员等等所体验。但凡有过高峰体验的人，都一定经历过这种伟大忘我的激情。《月亮与六便士》的主人公就是一个典型的例子。斯特里克兰德放弃了生活中的一切，不顾一切，甚至置自身的安康于不顾，只是为了绘画。他整天画啊画啊画，为了画画而画画。他死后，所画的一切都成了价值连城的珍宝。小说的内容是以保罗-高更为原型。高更的一幅画作《你什么时候结婚》一直是世界上最昂贵的画作，2015年以3亿美元的价格拍出，创造了艺术市场的新纪录。斯特里克兰德在《月亮和六便士》中所描述的故事是所有成功艺术家的元叙事。

让我们反观一下大多数人的生活，那些没有创造力的人。每天一醒来，就开始忙忙碌碌，做着正常的事情，比如家务，付账，完成老板的要求，看电视，玩游戏，等等。

请留意所谓的 "正常人 "的生活态度与那些有创造力的“不正常人”的态度之间有着多么大的不同。前者与美丽的、奇妙的、神圣的、神奇的和神秘的感觉完全脱节。这就是为什么很多人会对生活感到厌倦甚至幻灭的原因。这就是为什么很多人成为酒鬼、烟鬼，电子游戏迷的原因。因为”正常的“那种生活能有什么快乐？以这种半死不活的方式来过活，怎么可能会热爱生活？完全缺乏主动积极的建设性！

可以这么说，如果你觉得你的生活状态并没有发挥出你的全部潜能，那你就应该对这种生活方式不满意。当你没有活在自己的巅峰时刻。你就没有接触到生命和存在的奇迹。

如果你不创造性地参与生活，就像你根本没有在活。宛若一具僵尸，生活与你不可能是兴奋和美妙的。

找到你的兴趣。从头开始在生活中创造一些东西。这真的是生活给予你的机会。这是一个巨大而困难的挑战。当你全身而入，获得的将不仅仅是纯粹的激情和快乐，还需要更加认真且努力的投入和劳作，但它是值得的。

总而言之，创造力不仅是激情的原因，也是激情的产物。带着激情生活。发挥创造力! 探索生活在你面前展开的无限可能。这就是我们打开生活的正确方式!

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