Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 40
In our most recent episode, we ranged over a bunch of creative concepts and found how they all seemed to relate to the core idea we discussed: the importance of Intentionally taking Multiple Creative PerspectiveS when taking on a new challenge or opportunity.
Our brains are so determined to apply our status quo thoughts or views, it wants to show us what we expect to see, lead us to the thoughts we’ve been thinking.
Albert Einstein captured our goal wonderfully when he said “Creativity is looking at what others look at and seeing what no one else sees”.
How can that happen?
By taking many perspectiveS.
Look at it in a different light. Think about it from a new angle. Play with it today, and then tomorrow.
You’re in good company when you embrace the truth that “We don’t see things the way they are, we see them the way we are” for the Physicist and Philosophers and Psychologist and Poets, from their radically different professional perches, agree with Anais Ninn’s quote.
So change who you are….Be wild, then disciplined. In you are older pretend you are 9 again. If you are younger, wonder how your grandparent might take this on.
Another great way to get a fresh look is to practice Humility. Be clear with yourself that you don’t know, that your previous understandings or experiences should be put aside, at least for a while.
Be Playful as you take on new understanding. It’s a highly effective way to learn and very likely it gives you the view no one else is taking.
And finally be the Contrarian. Intentionally look at it differently than others have, than you have been. Others love it, try to not like it at all. Others think it should go fast, consider if it were to go slow. Others think it should be discarded, dust it off and turn it over and see what happens.
But being a Contrarian is a lot like a chain saw. It’s exactly the right tool for particular jobs, but you sure don’t want to carry it around all day.
Have a good one.
“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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