Reading this just made my day. It is a great blog post about creativity and how it makes so many things better. Worth checking it out.
10 Ways Creativity Can Completely Change Your Life
But there is something that’s always at my (and your) fingertips. Something we always have that will instantaneously make us happy, right now in this moment.
And that is (drum roll please…) our creativity.
Creativity is not just for artists or making art. Creativity is life making. It’s anything we do that turns us on, invigorates us, or offers a simple moment of pure merriment.
https://tinybuddha.com/blog/10-ways-creativity-can-completely-change-your-life/
Definitely go over and read this one – it is inspiring.
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What’s Blocking Corporate Creativity?
Creative ideas don’t have metrics. They haven’t been around for a while. You might not know anybody that’s been using them. What ends up happening is, you get a creative idea, it has weird metrics, you don’t really know much about it, and it doesn’t allow a decision-maker to make a correct decision. They don’t have the data.
Instead, a way to think about creativity might be better served by not thinking like a decision-maker but like an inventor figuring out and getting curious about the answer.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/whats-blocking-corporate-creativity/
From a corporate perspective, creative ideas and creativity are necessary but often, elusive despite the opportunities inherent in organizations for creativity to flourish and being much needed. This article explores it very well. There is a podcast about creativity too, from Wharton.
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Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Seth Godin on the role of creativity in business
from Maya Angelou. As she put it, “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
This concept of creativity being a resource that grows with each use and diminishes in strength when left tucked away in silence, runs counter-intuitive to how we view most finite business resources like time and money.
. . . successful entrepreneurs like Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Seth Godin, treat creativity as sacred. They often view creativity as their strongest competitive advantage, and taking the time to actively nurture the creative process, gets priority in their daily routines.
The blog post above offers Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Seth Godin on the role of creativity in business in video clips – amazing!
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9 Ways to Make Creativity Part of Your Daily Life
The more you make creativity part of your daily life, the more it will grow.
So how do you make creativity part of your daily life? Here are 9 suggestions–and guess what? You can get started on them all in the next 10 minutes.
These are great and lots of fun to try. The creativity awakening suggestions from the blog post above are as fast and helpful as claimed. Great fun!
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