Learning to be the dancing star
Why is creativity so important to our life? In a nutshell, because it helps us to turn it simpler. Contrary to common belief, we all are born creative. It’s the learning process that destroys our creative skills as we grow older.
Society and the education system are formatted to teach us to follow the rules and accept handbooks without questioning. Not that they are all wrong: but some of them certainly are.
And yet, creativity is instrumental in helping you face unexpected challenges and generating meaningful links with other people. From a business standpoint, creativity is the means to make you stand out among competitors, being more innovative and swifter to address market challenges.
One can’t order someone to be creative or manage creativity the same way you deal with any other asset within a company. But creativity can be encouraged and taught. Mind that innovative thinking is often blocked by a lack of confidence in oneself or the group. Therefore, the first thing to do is address this problem.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
– Vincent Van Gogh
To solve a problem, you must forget the solutions already given and figure out why it is a problem.
The creative thinker has lost the fear of making mistakes or being ridiculous and is brave enough to ditch respect for common sense and old paradigms. Often, he uses a heuristic approach to ease and speed up the problem-solving process. Continuous adjustment and learning through finding and connecting useful patterns in apparently unrelated instances are part of the technique.
Creativity has nothing to do with daydreaming. Creativity needs a method and in particular to bring down problems to their smallest parts. It’s by putting together simple things that solutions to complex challenges often arise.
Bringing down the noise and getting rid of whatever isn’t required to make the solution work properly is also very important. An optimal answer to any problem must always be lean.
Teamwork is also an important tool to boost creativity.
But it doesn’t require by any means endless meetings and ritualised gatherings. Formal, scheduled and painful meetings are poisonous to creativity.
At present, the environment changes at an increasingly fast pace. If we don’t have a program to turn ideas into things, our creativity will be worthless. Innovation demands results in due time. Proper planning is the compass that must always be on hand to allow you to be a shining star and what you think more than a souvenir gathering dust in your head.
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