Dear Creative…
The clearest social experiment in herd mentality is social media.
These apps have shown us repeatedly, how easily people are swayed by trends. What’s popular to buy, to say, to wear, and to do are shaped by the famous faces marketing it all. You begin to notice how quickly consensus transforms perception. Work becomes “brilliant” once the crowd embraces it, while extraordinary talent sits quietly in the margins, waiting for recognition to catch up.
With these, I typically try to educate and earn at least one dignified nose-exhale of amusement, but today, we’re getting philosophical, so allow me to say this one gently (don’t leave me, I’m fully in my Nigerian pastor bag): It’s called creative, not re-creative. Remember this: what’s good is good, and what’s not is not, whether or not others see the vision yet. When the sky is blue, it is blue. Collective opinion does not suddenly turn it crimson.
No one has ever pushed boundaries in art, science, fashion, or thought by following group think. The first person to intentionally rip holes into their jeans probably looked unhinged. Today? Ripped denim is a wardrobe staple.
Every inventor in history was called crazy at least once. Radical. Unrealistic. Delusional. Then one day, the world caught up and suddenly the same idea was “brilliant.” It tracks that daring creatives become change makers. Doing it your way, different from the mold, requires a mind of your own. It means veering from the crowd. It means standing alone in your method, in your art, business, your math, your ideology, before anyone understands it.
To create is to bring into existence, that which did not exist before.Your mind holds the first of its kind, whatever your “it” is. And how humbling is it that God entrusted you with that ability? Creation is His first recorded act of power. And you, in your own way, participate in that same divine instinct.
It is a gift to be interesting.
It is a gift to think differently.
It is a gift to see what others cannot yet see.
You don’t just follow culture, you shape it.
And one day, the very crowd that called it crazy, weird, and ridiculous, may follow the path you carved.
Humbling.
Did the sermon land, or should I preach it again next Sunday?
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