Taking risks is part and parcel of being creative.
It's
all about spreading your wings and trying new things.
Nikola
Tesla, when a child, tried to fly. He perched on the edge of the barn's
roof, holding his parents' umbrella. Finally, he convinced himself
that he could fly. His mother found him unconscious and carried him
off to bed.
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Have you ever trained fleas to not jump out of a jar?
All you have to do is put fleas in a glass jar, and then screw on
a lid. They'll jump and they'll bounce. And after a while, they'll
get sick and tired of banging their heads against that bright, shiny
ceiling. So they'll stop jumping as high.
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What's the purpose of going shopping for food if all you
do when you get home is throw it in the garbage? You don't do that
with the food you buy - so why are you doing that with your ideas?
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An
old story says Edison always believed
in taking the people he was thinking of hiring out to lunch. When
the soup arrived, he would sit back and watch. Those that tasted
the soup before salting it, he wouldn't immediately cross them off
his list.
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more.
When your child is stubborn and drives you up the wall, do
you see it as a positive trait or a negative?
You
may be surprised to learn that your child is in good company!
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VIRUS
ALERT! If
you ever get an e-mail titled, "Crush Out Creativity," do
not open it. It will wipe out all of your inner drive. Forward this
letter to as many people as you can.
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Today, my friend, Michelle Woods, speaks out: Just
today I was struck with the thought that so many teachers in the
school system are boring, bored, boring! They go by the book and
that's all that they want to do. It's like living your life without
the colour red!!!! Their lives are just neutrals, with perhaps a
bit of blue....
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Innovative ideas are often so practical people ask, "Why
didn't anyone think of that?" I
was reminded of this just this week. The peninsula where I live
has cable ferries that carry the cars back and forth to the greater
land mass of the city.
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I
am STRONGLY convinced that most organizations systematically
suffocate creativity out of their employees. They hire for dullness,
manage for dullness, evaluate for dullness, and promote for dullness.
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What
if they laugh at me?
Laughter
can also be used as a club to kill creativity. Our instinctive reaction
to ideas that don't conform to our expectations is to laugh at them.
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Unfortunately,
there are some situations where it might be smarter to be conventional
instead of innovative. Unfortunately there are A LOT of
bosses and organizations that are scared of creativity. And unfortunately,
people are often punished instead of rewarded for thinking two steps
ahead of everyone else.
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If
you want to be more creative, the most important thing
you can do is convince yourself that you ARE creative. You may be
telling yourself aren't creative. You do not want to say this anymore.
Why? Because when you tell yourself you aren't creative, you shut
out any creative ideas.
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