PERFECT WHIMSY
PA R T Y W I T H W H I M S Y
So—to fully access our creativity, we don’t need to wait around
The only thing better than being creatively whimsical on our
for our muses to arrive, we just need to fire up desire! To allow
own? Getting it on with others. Inviting your friends—or even
our whimsy to cut loose and run wild, to chase it madly until
better, being invited—to the whimsy party. Some of the best
we’ve brought our vision to life.
guests to party with are kids.
Many of us tend to think that to be more creative, we need to
One of my all-time favorite moments was talking with a four-
be more skillful—when actually, we just need to desire more.
year-old about his stuffed animal dinosaur. When I asked him
Skill is also part of the equation, but it’s not the first step.
what the dinosaur ate, he looked at me like I was a little dim,
Nobody would ever become skillful if they didn’t have the
and stated, “Race car meat.” Fact. Duh. And we were off!
desire to play and create in the first place.
We figured out how dinosaurs hunted the race cars (bite the
The beauty of creativity is that it’s limitless. It can be
engine to slow it down), what kind of race cars are preferable
anything—not just painting or writing or dancing. You can
(yellow and blue), and which part was dessert (the tires).
create experiences. Systems. Movements. A single, perfect
Jurassic Nascar—and a whimsical, energizing hour of mingling
moment in time.
our wild imaginations—was born.
Your creations can be as simple or as complex as you wish them to be. As a creator, you get to choose what you want to create in the world, and what that looks and feels like.
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