Dedicated Creative Time Makes You Happier, Smarter, And More Emotionally Aware: 4 Things You Can Do

Creativity is about more than just “creating things.”

It’s also about self-reflection.

At the beginning of the pandemic back in March, I was listening to this Kabbalah recording in an attempt to wrap my head around what was happening and what the future was going to look like. And one of the main messages in this piece was the idea of being proactive in one’s life. Instead of seeing COVID-19 through the lens of a “victim,” feeling as though this horrible thing was happening to all of us completely outside our control, I asked myself what it would look like to put myself back in the driver’s seat.

At a time when we felt the most helpless and out of control, what could I control?

All throughout history, tough times have always given way to some of the world’s brightest ideas. The car radio came out of The Great Depression. Amazon and Google came out of the dot-com bubble. It’s human nature to want to take action, overcome obstacles, and move forward. And the root of that action is always inspiration — feeling inspired to create something new.

There’s a great Forbes article about the effects creativity can have on your health, citing everything from increased happiness from…