How My Human Design Chart Shapes My Creative Process

The exact flow I use to cultivate inspiration, structure my ideas, and write original content.

Let me start with a confession.

For most of my life, I did not consider myself a particularly creative person. At least not in the traditional sense.

My creations have never been innovative or provocative or colorful like the artists I admire. They tend to be practical. Mostly useful. Sometimes even a little boring.

But over the past few years, Human Design — along with brilliant thinkers like Rick Rubin — forced me to reluctantly reconsider.

Here’s what I’ve come to believe: we are all creatives. Every single day, through our choices, relationships, work, conversations, businesses, homes, and self-expression, we’re participating in the ultimate creative act — creating a lived experience.

So the question isn’t whether you’re creative.

The question is: how does creativity want to move through you?

This is where Human Design comes in.

Your chart acts as a filter for creative life force. Inspiration may be universal, but the way it gets translated, expressed, and brought to life through you is entirely ORIGINAL.

It’s why two people can receive the same idea and make something completely different with it. It’s why some people create best in solitude while others need collaborators. Why some create in big, volatile bursts and others through measured, consistent action. Why some create with one specific person in mind and others for a mass audience.

But here’s the tricky part: you can’t manufacture creativity. You can’t will ideas into existence.

What you can do is cultivate the conditions that make you more receptive to inspiration — and more likely to create something that is truly yours. You can learn about your natural creative rhythm, the environments that support it, the habits that block it, and the specific gifts you’re here to infuse into everything you put out in the world.

So I thought I’d pull back the curtain and share how I use my own design to inform my creative process. Not because it’s the best way to create — but because it’s the way creativity seems to move through me…and it might inspire you to get curious about how it likes to move through YOU.

The following “process” (which is a very official word for something that feels much more natural than that…) has been developed and refined over many many years and through much experimentation. And I fully expect it to keep changing over time, as my circumstances, expertise, and interests continue to evolve.

Again, I am not sharing this for you to copy-paste. I am sharing this as an example of how differentiated a person’s process can be. So that the next time you come across a post on Instagram that claims they have a playbook for creativity that works every time for everyone…you promptly ignore it.

So, here’s how I work with my creative filter: