Just thinking about how anything that is created, which if you take a really broad view is pretty much everything, is a reflection of all both positive and negative experiences that have occured prior to the creation, in that the creator's respoonse to these experiences will lead it to creating something, But there must have been something originally created that was not influenced by the past
Just reading a really interesting book on motivation, its mainly focusing on rewards/punishments and its effect on motivation. For creative work, the reward should be the joy of doing the work and getting paid etc is just a bonus but if you start focusing on getting paid, your creativity will decrease apparently. Rewards should only be given for simple task and not for complex creative tasks,
Ah the joys of having free time to read up on these topics
Just joined this site today and its keeping me busy. Hopefully I'll learn a lot about my pictures and see some amazing pictures that will challenge, inspire and entertain me