you get set in your own personal ways of practicing your work/art
I always see my creativity taper off when I stop paying close attention and I stop practicing the fundamentals. I think #1 gets harder because our downtime for reflection is often saturated by the busyness and distractions of life, and #2 gets harder because of physical aging in general.
Either way, the brain is creative in the same way the heart is for circulating blood. Continue shoveling in raw materials to the furnace of the mind and it will continue to faithfully churn out novel concepts.
I always see my creativity taper off when I stop paying close attention and I stop practicing the fundamentals. I think #1 gets harder because our downtime for reflection is often saturated by the busyness and distractions of life, and #2 gets harder because of physical aging in general.
Either way, the brain is creative in the same way the heart is for circulating blood. Continue shoveling in raw materials to the furnace of the mind and it will continue to faithfully churn out novel concepts.