Most people didn’t pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn’t imagine doing anything else with their lives.
Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.
Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us.
Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It’s been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That’s not a bad way to think about it.
The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth.
If you’re running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it’s an advertising company or whether you’re running a hospital.
Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important – they just don’t understand what it is.
These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.
I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.
You can’t just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
To realize our true creative potential – in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities – we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.
Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems.
Being wrong doesn’t mean being creative – but if you aren’t afraid of being wrong, you can’t be creative.
It is difficult to feel accomplished when you’re not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something ‘for your own good’ is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
Education doesn’t need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it’s produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.