My number one goal for 2026 was to focus on reigniting creativity in my life.
Creativity, like many other aspects of a persons life, seems to be more like a muscle than an inherent skill.
The main area of focus for my creativity was drawing. I had all of these ideas for products and concepts that lived in my mind alone, so I started to work on drawing from an industrial design perspective to get these ideas an prototypes on paper, and as I began to get better at realizing my ideas I began to write about them, and as they amassed I decided to start learning CAD software to be able to play with those ideas in an interactive way.
This eventually led to getting into 3D printing - mind you, this has all happened only over the course of 6 months. But now I am able to take an idea, put it to paper, build it using basic modeling, and print a physical version of that idea that I can hold in my hands all over the course of 1 to 2 days.
It’s been an extremely fulfilling journey and I am trying to extend it to other parts of my life, but one thing this article got right was that treating it like an experiment and setting goals and hypothesis and fulfilling them is the true joy of the creative process.
My number one goal for 2026 was to focus on reigniting creativity in my life.
Creativity, like many other aspects of a persons life, seems to be more like a muscle than an inherent skill.
The main area of focus for my creativity was drawing. I had all of these ideas for products and concepts that lived in my mind alone, so I started to work on drawing from an industrial design perspective to get these ideas an prototypes on paper, and as I began to get better at realizing my ideas I began to write about them, and as they amassed I decided to start learning CAD software to be able to play with those ideas in an interactive way.
This eventually led to getting into 3D printing - mind you, this has all happened only over the course of 6 months. But now I am able to take an idea, put it to paper, build it using basic modeling, and print a physical version of that idea that I can hold in my hands all over the course of 1 to 2 days.
It’s been an extremely fulfilling journey and I am trying to extend it to other parts of my life, but one thing this article got right was that treating it like an experiment and setting goals and hypothesis and fulfilling them is the true joy of the creative process.
Wonderful article!