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  • Michael Edmondson

Do you work on your creativity?


Today is October 7 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is “How often do you work on your creativity?”

Practicing being creativity is one of the characteristics of those who navigate the chaos.

Harvard psychologist Shelley H. Carson explains that creativity is an activity open to everyone both at home and at work.

Scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians are just a few of the many occupations that benefit from creativity.

Teachers, engineers, and health-care professionals can all benefit from developing their creativity. Unfortunately, many adults limit their creative thinking.

Carson’s book Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life found that 60 to 80 percent of adults find the task of thinking different uncomfortable and some even find it exhausting.

Connecting the unconnected through associational thinking exhausts adults who have lost the creative skills once practiced throughout childhood. To help adults Carson developed the CREATES approach: Connect, Reason, Envision, Absorb, Transform, Evaluate, and Stream – and how they relate to creativity, productivity, and innovation.

The author Pearl S. Buck said this on creativity ““The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”

How often do you work on your creativity?

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