Jun 13, 2026 · 27 min · 10 segments
In this first episode of our two-part Dear Creator series on Creative Discipline, we unpack some of the biggest misconceptions people have about creatives being lazy, unstructured, or unprofessional…
So the first question is, do you believe that creative people naturally struggle with discipline? Or is that just a myth?
Definitely a myth.
Definitely a myth.
And I think it's more of a stereotype.
Than a
natural...
Yeah, it's more of a stereotype.
And... that people tend to believe wrongly and then once you believe something it will influence how you act to get and it will influence how you show up in the world because you feel like creative is equal to messy creative is equal to being all over the place but that's not that's not the truth you know creativity can be structured creativity can be disciplined Creativity can be organized.
Of course, there has to be a method to the madness.
There is a madness, but there has to be some sort of method to the madness.
And creative people can learn to be organized.
So even if you feel like naturally you are disorganized, which I don't agree with, but if you're at a place where you feel like, oh, that's just how I am, you can learn to not be like that.
You can learn to balance balance being yourself and being professional.
Because without the structure, without being some sort of put together, you can't be professional.
And honestly, whether you like it or not, there will be a ceiling on the amount of growth you can have.
So I think that's a stereotype that we should vehemently reject and work against.
You're saying it with such passion.
Yeah, because creatives get a bad rep, let's be honest.
Yes, and it makes everybody look bad.
Yes, because the assumption is that once you walk into a space and you say, I'm a creative person, people assume that, first of all, you're the one who's going to be late.
Yeah.
Right.
They
assume you're the one who's not going to have structure.
So immediately they're saying to themselves, oh, yeah, the creative person on the project, just, you know, keep an eye on them because they're not really organized.
So the first question is, do you believe that creative people naturally struggle with discipline? Or is that just a myth?
Definitely a myth.
Definitely a myth.
And I think it's more of a stereotype.
Than a
natural...
Yeah, it's more of a stereotype.
And... that people tend to believe wrongly and then once you believe something it will influence how you act to get and it will influence how you show up in the world because you feel like creative is equal to messy creative is equal to being all over the place but that's not that's not the truth you know creativity can be structured creativity can be disciplined Creativity can be organized.
Of course, there has to be a method to the madness.
There is a madness, but there has to be some sort of method to the madness.
And creative people can learn to be organized.
So even if you feel like naturally you are disorganized, which I don't agree with, but if you're at a place where you feel like, oh, that's just how I am, you can learn to not be like that.
You can learn to balance balance being yourself and being professional.
Because without the structure, without being some sort of put together, you can't be professional.
And honestly, whether you like it or not, there will be a ceiling on the amount of growth you can have.
So I think that's a stereotype that we should vehemently reject and work against.
You're saying it with such passion.
Yeah, because creatives get a bad rep, let's be honest.
Yes, and it makes everybody look bad.
Yes, because the assumption is that once you walk into a space and you say, I'm a creative person, people assume that, first of all, you're the one who's going to be late.
Yeah.
Right.
They
assume you're the one who's not going to have structure.
So immediately they're saying to themselves, oh, yeah, the creative person on the project, just, you know, keep an eye on them because they're not really organized.
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