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What are the successful actions that really make creativity happen for you?

Having a good routine. Surrounding yourself with positive people or influences. Identifying the positive things in your life and the negative. Fleshing out your mission statement and what it actually means to you.

The key thing is that you don’t need to be good at everything and you don’t need to tell yourself you’re good at everything, or try to convince yourself or other people. Therefore, when you’re showing your portfolio or you’re sharing your website, don’t try to convince people that you can shoot the action and landscapes and portraits and everything. That’s not needed. You’re hired because you’re a specialist and because you’re the best at what you do. And really that’s what you want to do. You want to hone that skill.

What advice do you have for someone who wants to put more creativity and art into their life?

I’ve always looked at these things as a career path; how do you want to achieve this as a career path? How do you want to do this to build your name and reputation? It’s pretty straightforward: surround yourself with things that inspire you. If you don’t know what inspires you, go out and try new things.

For thousands of years, we have lived outdoors. It’s only been the last couple hundred years that we have been an indoor culture. So deep inside of us, in our most innate self, we are craving to ignite all of our senses. Living indoors shuts off certain parts of your senses. You don’t have to live with those senses because you don’t have to worry about where your food comes from.

So you need to get to a place where you’re using all of those senses. You’re finding out what it is you’re passionate about and that really requires you to experience new things. I can’t express that enough. I think that most of society is a bit too complacent and a bit too looking-for-handouts as opposed to working for one.

How do you add creativity to your life as a parent?

When it comes to adding creativity as a parent, you simply have to realize that your goal as a parent is to foster creativity. For me at least, it’s not really to lead or to instruct or to demonstrate, it’s to foster it, because kids are born with it. You don’t need to teach them how to be creative, you don’t have to teach them how to be imaginative, you just have to create scenarios where they can do that and let it flourish.

A big part of it is learning how to be hands-off at times and how to create an environment—and nowadays creating that environment might be less screen time and more time creating outdoors, or making your own games or playing theirs. Also when your children do find something that they are passionate about or inspired by, then allowing and supporting that, going all-in with them and letting them really feel the whole thing and experience it. That’s a big benefit that we can provide them as well.