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Who has not ever been compared to Mozart in his first piano lessons, with our first Picasso when he drew sketches, or with Spielberg with our first home videos? And when I say I do not mean to compare that show and a natural talent comparable to those geniuses but that seems to start getting some piano lessons we need to get to play as the great Richter. Inevitably we put a bar so high that rapid amalgamation of negative feelings invade our mind, consciously and unconsciously. Some of these feelings are sadness for not trusting in ourselves, frustration at being realistic, and therefore a large decrease in self-esteem. And is that the figure of genius as well as the creative, has been the subject of numerous stereotypes, myths and misunderstandings which unfortunately persist in our culture. You could say then, that this figure of genius has won two different visions. One and certainly the best known, which leaves the legacy of his great work, that is, a handful of masterpieces, hundreds of quality jobs, some mediocre work and even some fudge, why not say.

All that, of course, the narrative often exaggerated for commercial purposes of his biography. And that is where we link with the second view inevitably, as a result of such biographies retouched and manipulated, supposedly commercial, created the myth, the great man, in short, genius untouchable and unreachable.

In my opinion, everything we do in life should do so not only itself but also by the media, ie, enjoying the same path as we walk. This is even more noticeable when it comes to art, since it was founded with the purpose of expressing feelings, thoughts, etc ... So much so, that the artist enjoys his work more elaborate ending, so much so that many works are left unfinished and its creator, you may unconsciously do not want to end up with something that is enjoying both. Learning to play an instrument, paint, sculpt or take photographs, is a wonderful process which does not pursue both the end and the middle. This process is innate and well known by all as it is something everyone does from birth: the game. Play, that is, neither more nor less. When a child is banging his first white keys - sometimes also black, is just playing with them, nothing more. Are the exams, the pressure of being the best - of the conservatory, its people and the world, ... - the comparison with the great geniuses, resulting in the abandonment of artistic activity or imminent mental imbalance.

We could speak here of the murderers of creativity operating since childhood. According to the prestigious social psychologist Teresa Amabile monitoring, evaluation, rewards, competition, excessive control, the restriction of the elections and pressure to the child, are some of the murderers of creativity. Apparently, just what we like adults do to children so that they closely resemble the character that we admire. And is that genius, not its shape, is characterized precisely by not taking except on rare occasions, all these inhibitors and their creative talent to develop with the same game, all creative activity. When you do not have enjoyed their activity, they have simply done nothing. My conclusion would be in short, we should enjoy what we like - and less of what we do not like, as would Csikszentmihalyi, downplaying the goal and especially not compared to the great geniuses, but learning from them and appreciate his work.