The Creative Process :: Article by Kimberly Brooks, Huffington Post

I came across this article by artist and new media designer Kimberly Brooks from the TED site.  She is the TEDx Fullerton guest speaker this year.

She compares the creative process to Kübler-Ross’s five stages of death. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance to the following eight stages: 1) Vision, 2) Hope, 3) Diving In, 4) Excitement, 5) Suspicion, 6) Clarity, 7) Obsession, and 8 Resolution. She makes the point in her article that people get steps one and two all the time, but its actually step three — diving in, that is the scary part. The act of doing separates the dreamers from the makers. Article here and Kimberly’s site here.

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