The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.
The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.
Before innovation – or practical creativity – there is insight. You must see the world differently.
Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist – and finding a solution – or seeing what does not yet exist – and finding an opportunity.
As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
Nowists get off on getting on, so they run when they could walk, jump when they could sit and dance when they could sit at the edge. They regret inaction, so simply act.
Let go to get going.
Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.
You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.
If you don’t start, you’re finished.
For most people, it is better to lean towards action rather than inaction.
The best things happen to those who don’t wait.
Only the right pain gets the right gain.
If life is fast, live faster.
If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.
Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...
If traditional doesn’t work, then traditions won’t do.
Our human history is the history of ideas. Our human future is the future of ideas. Human desire. Human imagination. Human ingenuity. Creating and copying. Tool-makers and dream-chasers.
Innovators make the previously impossible possible.
New ideas are like babies, beautiful, ugly and not finished yet.
Strategy is simple, but simple is complex.