Over the next six months, I devoted my life to teaching everything I knew about programming and web development to these women. Most of them barely had a decent level of education — only a few had gone to university until they got married and started a family within the constraints of their religion. The English language was an issue for many, but with patience and time, they slowly got over their fear of judgment and became better at expressing themselves in a foreign language.
Read MoreWhen it comes to creativity, I don’t let myself believe too much in divine intervention. At least, not as a baseline for my life as an artist.
Sometimes, I think to myself that creativity might just be the ability to drag ourselves out of our invisible box and gather the courage to try new things — to go on adventures, to let go of our need for comfort, all that stuff. Maybe our only job as artists is to learn how to become emotional acrobats, jumping in and out of the unknown like superhero vigilantes inside the board game of Life, and see where that leads us.
Bottom line is, as a personal guideline, I prefer to think creativity comes from hard work, on ourselves, and on our Art. But I admit, there were times when inspiration came to me in a way that baffles me to this day.
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