The power of consistency
Creativity in some cases is a talent that is easy to have but hard to build on. Creativity at a professional level is not easy, it requires constant learning and reforming and different “creative pulling” activities. At the heart of every impressive extraordinary build or of an ecosystem is someone who has given energy, time, and resources over and over again to arrive at that extraordinary expected end.
Consistency is hard! It requires everything you’ve got. You have to give and give and keep giving again, it’s a necessary demand for good creativity.
In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell puts the estimated consistent time for success or any perfected endeavor at 10,000 hours, so imagine the amount of effort and resources you would have to burn at that extraneous time.
Consistency has so many names, it can be called Hard work, Smart work, Diligence, hustle and so much more but consistency and all its related family members are a bitch (pardon my french). Building or growing creativity consistently can be stressful and can seem not to favor you with instant gratification, you can put in the work and build nonstop and even feel like you have reached a point where you are a master of your craft but then you are not getting the results you’re hoping to get. Unfavorably, you can even have people you’ve watched grow alongside you or even mentored, growing while you just seemingly remained at a point. That can be attributed to 2 reasons. The first one might be the bitchiness of consistency. Consistency cannot be fully quantified therefore, your gauge of consistency may not be consistency or the universe’s gauge of your consistency and what you might need to do is re-strategize and keep building, keep been consistent (sucks right?). The second reason can be you just been an arrogant self entitled person, who wants gratification without effectively building and consistency or the universe or God is simply just shielding you from the effect of immediate short time gratification of your creative efforts.
In the words of the great philosopher Obonjgyar, “I took my pain and turn it to sugar”. Consistency requires your all, and you can turn whatever you feel into energy to run more.
