One Small Act of Creative Courage You Can Take Today

What You Can Do Right Now

Here’s something you can do right now, from wherever you’re sitting: Share one piece of art that changed your perspective and explain how.

It could be a song that made you understand something about yourself. A painting that shifted how you see light. A poem that cracked your heart open. A film that changed how you think about other people. A book that rewired your brain.

Post it on social media, send it in a text, tell a friend, write it in an email. But here’s the important part: don’t just share the art. Share what it did for you. Be specific about how it moved you or changed you.

Why This Small Act Matters

This might seem small, but it’s not. When you articulate why a piece of art mattered to you, you’re doing several powerful things at once.

You’re validating the artist’s choice to take a creative risk. Someone somewhere decided to express something authentic rather than something safe, and their courage reached you. By acknowledging that impact, you’re completing the circuit between creative freedom and cultural vitality.

You’re also giving someone else permission to be moved. When people see that art can genuinely affect another person, they become more open to their own authentic responses. Your willingness to be vulnerable about what touches you creates space for others to do the same.

Most importantly, you’re contributing to a culture that values authentic expression. Every time someone shares how art genuinely affected them, rather than just posting what they think they should like, they’re making the world a little safer for creative risk-taking.

The artists in this series—Bolden, Malevich, Hughes, O’Keeffe—all trusted that their authentic expression might resonate with others. They couldn’t know for sure. They just had to believe that what moved them might move someone else too.

Completing the Circuit

When you share what moved you and why, you’re proving them right. You’re demonstrating that creative courage has lasting impact. And you’re encouraging other people, both artists and audiences, to trust their own authentic responses.

Creative freedom thrives when people feel safe expressing what genuinely matters to them. Your small act of honest sharing helps create that safety.

So find something that changed you and tell someone why. It’s one of the easiest and most powerful ways to support the creative freedom that keeps culture alive.

Randall White
Abbetuck

Read the complete Creative Freedom series:

• When Jazz Found Its Voice in a Funky Dance Hall
• The Revolutionary Who Painted Himself Back into a Corner
• The Poet Who Wrote in Blues and Called It Literature
• The Woman Who Painted Flowers Like Monuments