Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 130
During the last radio show with Charles Johnson, founder of The Bump Serum, I asked him to find his creative and entrepreneurial types using this framework. I have been asking my guests to do the same so I thought it would be interesting for you to be reminded what this framework looks like:
Six Creatively Entrepreneurial Types
A few years ago IBM committed to nurturing the creative qualities of their employees and developed a four-part taxonomy of creative types. The idea was to help them think about their creative and entrepreneurial motivations, self-reflection useful at the beginning of a personal development program.
So, IBM asks it’s employees “Are you motivated to be creative and entrepreneurial because you are…”
An Explorer? Do you use your creative qualities and entrepreneurial behaviors to explore the unknown because you love discovering new ideas or opportunities?
An Artist? Are you creative and entrepreneurial because of your need to express your personal vision, a vision for entertaining or informing or serving others?
A Warrior? Do you love to compete, to show you are the best at what you do, eager to use your creatively entrepreneurial skills to win?
A Saint? Are you motivated to be creative because you like to be of service, you want to help others, you want to use your talents to help make the world a better place?
Listening over the years to how folks applied these types to their own creative predispositions two more emerged:
An Orchestrator? Do you enjoy using your creative and entrepreneurial talents to recruit the right people and collect the best resources for them as you help them identify their best opportunity?
A Cultivator? Do you enjoy taking on something someone else has started so you can use your creative and entrepreneurial abilities to make it even better?
I’ve offered this tool with nearly 10,000 folks and have yet to find anyone who claims only one type; often they are three or four. What’s your combo?
After you consider your motivations and identify your collection of types consider whether one you didn’t include might serve your continued growth or your work on an upcoming project and how you might incorporate those new qualities into your make up.
And you will enjoy even more insight—and have some fun—when you visually represent your combination. Graph it, map it, chart it. Doodle a cartoon character. Maybe try a couple of visual strategies like making a pie chart and then creating a character. And you get the greatest benefit when you create your visual representations off-line, with pen or pencil on paper—research shows you are more creative holding something in your hand.
Have fun.
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“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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