I consider myself fairly creative. I am not more creative than you. I've just spent a lot of time practicing creativity. And I've surrounded myself with people who constantly encourage me that I can be creative. It helps that my parents, family and teachers always encouraged me that I was creative. Believing that inner voice that "You are creative" is extremely important to success. You Are Creative! I firmly believe that we are all creative! You are a creative person. If you disagree with me, … [Read more...]
Demystifying The Creative Process
Remember kindergarten when we used to play with finger paints, watercolors, crayons, chalk, colored pencils, markers and other fun things. We'd paint with great abandon not worried about what anyone would think about our pictures. And we'd have fun. Our teachers would hang everyone's art on the bulletin board. They would ask us, "Tell us about your picture," without any judgment or verdicts of good and bad. Everyone was considered a creative artist. We were all creative using our … [Read more...]
Are You A Right-Brained Creative?
Where does creativity come from? No, it doesn't come from the strike of lightning bolt or a handful of hallucinogenic drugs. Although the movie Gothic depicting English Romantic poets Mary Shelley and Lord Byron taking drugs on a rooftop in the midst of a thunderstorm might lead you to think so. Dramatic, yes! And far from the truth. (The movie chronicles the summer when Shelley wrote Frankenstein.) Defining Creativity What is creativity? Creativity is a mix of original thinking, ingenuity … [Read more...]
