Category: Workplace Creativity

If You Want To Boost Your Creativity, You Must Read These Quotes

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Motivational Quotes, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Workplace Creativity, Workplace productivity
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‘Having a grasp of how to apply our deeper passions to the work we do is the significant difference between doing work that’s simply good and doing work that’s brilliant.’- Todd Henry

‘Comfort is frequently the enemy of greatness. When you choose to default to comfort, you are choosing to be less affective in your life.’- Todd Henry

‘No matter what you say about your priorities, where you spend money and your time will prove them out.’- Todd Henry

‘To spend our time effectively means that we are willing to view out time as a portfolio of investments, not as a slot machine.’- Todd Henry

‘Growth is uncomfortable, but without the discomfort our capacity doesn’t remain the same, it shrinks.’- Todd Henry

‘Making a break from thinking about ourselves and our problems for a while often frees up insight that is lurking just beneath the surface.’- Todd Henry

‘While our minds are unparalleled in their capacity to experience and assimilate information, they also have a limited bandwidth for doing so.’- Todd Henry

‘When you are planning your life, you need to account for every commitment you make in every area.’- Todd Henry

‘If the young growth isn’t prunned back, the vine will bear less fruit and eventually produce none at all.’- Todd Henry

‘Innovation is the collective grasp for ‘next’, and it’s always built on the work of those who went before.’- Todd Henry

‘Sometimes others can give you perspective on projects or show you potential solutions that you’ve overlooked.’- Todd Henry

‘There are enough limitations in place thanks to your organization, your peers, and your clients; you don’t need to limit yourself, too.’- Todd Henry

‘The more opaque the decision-making process, the more likely that misinterpretation and misalignment will follow.’- Todd Henry

‘When it comes to your effectiveness, fake work is often more dangerous than no work at all.’- Todd Henry

‘To attempt to be perpetually brilliant and increasingly productive, without changing the basic habits and structure of your life to accommodate that undertaking, is a futile effort.’- Todd Henry

‘Anyone can improve his ability to generate good ideas consistently if willing to be a little more purposeful in how to approach the creative process.’- Todd Henry

‘If you want to deliver the right idea at the right moment, you must begin the process far upstream from when you need that idea.’- Todd Henry

Creativity

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Workplace Creativity
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Creativity starts in the mind. If you are not creative in your mind, you can’t be creative in your job. We all have the ability to be creative, but we are busy beating ourselves up for what we cannot do. You are a creative person ONLY if you see yourself as one.

You can be a creative person if you want to. It is in your mind. It is in how you see yourself. If you see yourself as a creative person, your brain will pick it up. But if you don’t see yourself as a creative person, it will be difficult for you to change. This is not to scare you. You can do it. It starts with looking at things differently, thinking differently, challenging yourself, getting out of your comfort zone, opening your mind to new ideas, meeting new people, and asking intelligent questions. You can be creative. YOU DON’T NEED A UNIVERSITY DEGREE TO BE CREATIVE. If you can think, you can be creative.

Creativity means looking at things in different ways. You need creative ideas to move on in life. As Edward de Bono put it, “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in different ways.” I know sometimes it is hard to be creative in an organization that doesn’t support creativity. A lot of people want to express their creative ideas, but the organizations they work for do not support them. If your organization does not support creative ideas, there is nothing you can do about it. If you need it badly, you might consider leaving the company. Before you do that, make sure it is your core mission to use your creativity to better your life and the lives of the people around you. If not, don’t leave your job.

As I said earlier, you don’t need a college degree to be creative. If you want to be a creative person, open your mind to new people and to new ideas. Don’t reject what you don’t know. Instead of you rejecting it, ask great questions about it. Remember, questions lead to more questions, not to more answers. You can also increase your creativity by your associations. Hang out with creative people. If you do that, you will start to develop your creative muscles. The more you use it, the better it becomes. Maya Angelou famously said, “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Yes, the more you train your creative muscles, the more you will have.

If you want your creative muscles to grow, start using them today, right now!