Everyday Creative

Chapter FourThe Courage To Seek

Rekindle a sense of wonder

Most people book a holiday based on the brochure. They prearrange their airport transfers. Reserve a hotel massage. Curate a list of the best restaurants (as voted by Google). They’ll post photos of popular landmarks and jump on organised tours, unconsciously seeking the familiar in the unknown. We call them tourists.

There are others, however, who revel in the uncertainty of new experiences. They eat where the locals eat. Adapt their plans according to how each day unfolds. They feel quite at home without a map or a compass. They’re more likely to buy one-way tickets, venture off the beaten path and be guided by the rhythmical dance of choice and chance. We call them travellers.

Everyday creatives are travellers, not tourists.

They view their work as a pilgrimage. A sacred quest of self-discovery. They don’t come for the hype or the highlight reel. They see the hiccups, mishaps and setbacks of the road as central to their reason for travelling it.

And this restless desire to go further, listen deeper and stay longer gives them an uncanny ability to transform and transcend whatever circumstances they might encounter along the way.

From contempt to curiosity

To become an Everyday Creative you don’t have to quit your job, sell all your possessions and book a one-way ticket to the other side of the world. You do have to summon and leverage the same restless curiosity a traveller uses to begin and sustain their journey. ...