This is the fourth and final entry of a series: you can find Part One here, read Part Two here and check out part three here.
I have spent a lot of time over the past couple of years studying recent neuroscience discoveries into the relationships between your brain’s optimal performance and your preferred behaviors—the ways you are naturally predisposed to behave when taking on a new challenge or opportunity align with your brain being it’s most resilient, adaptive, creative, and ready to learn. My study was directed towards determining which Creative and Entrepreneurial qualities and behaviors are most useful to each specific behavior set. The neuroscientists identified four Preferred Behavior Clusters and found that each of us have two that we want to act from.
I will introduce the four Preferred Behavior Clusters, one in each of the next four columns, and then identify the Creative and Entrepreneurial qualities that are naturally found there, the ones that will be easiest for you to integrate and most likely apply in your work and all of life’s activities.
It will be useful for you to read about the behaviors and creative qualities that don’t describe you as it is likely you collaborate with, or live in the same household with, others who operate out of a different set of preferred behaviors.
Today we’ll present the Initiating and Innovating Behavior Cluster.
When facing new challenges or opportunities you are imaginative, an innovative thinker. You have an unorthodox approach to developing ideas or solving problems. You are high-spirited, you establish rapport easily, you are articulate and persuasive, and you like achieving ‘win-win’ situations.
You are optimistic and can even be inspiring.
Originating New Creative Ideas
This is a major creative strength for your behavior predispositions. Because you are flexible, multi-talented, and adventurous you naturally view an opportunity from multiple creative perspectiveS. That helps you get used to it, and that engages your creative subconscious.
Creativity is a numbers game and since you genuinely enjoy your creative behaviors you want to keep at it, discovering and creating more options to choose from.
Your unconventional approaches to work, to life, bust status quo thinking which often will lead to your original insights. Part of that approach is your predisposition to look at opportunity or challenges from a diversity of creative PerspectiveS.
Executing and Collaborating
As an idea begins to take shape it is likely changes will occur in the project’s development. You are flexible and very adaptable so you are ready for changes that occur as the project advances.
You tend to bring a fast-paced energy, and you know you have to keep the momentum going.
Team members appreciate your enthusiastic participation and you establish rapport easily, helping bring a closeness to the team.
You are a good storyteller and know how to manage the narrative to assist the execution.
Places to challenge your Creative and Entrepreneurial Growth
Since you don’t like structure or routine—I operate out of this behavior set mostly, and I sure don’t like structure or routine—and you can be undisciplined and disorganized you are well served by a creative method that focuses your efforts but doesn’t confine you.
It’s the Ready Fire Aim methodology, easy to start incremental steps that lead to important advances. I wrote a column about RFA last year!
“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!
You can also find more ways to explore your creative genius in this column’s companion radio program, broadcasting on 97.9 The Hill WCHL and posted here on Chapelboro!
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