What if creativity isn’t about novelty or usefulness? What if creativity didn’t connect in people’s minds immediately to art, or special skill, or talent? What if, instead, creativity describes freedom? What if, instead of promoting creativity, we encouraged people to express their creativeness; their ability to create, to make new, to make a change?
What if we gave ‘permission to explore’ instead of the one more popularly used, ‘permission to fail’? That might set an expectation for discovery…might it not? Set your calendar to celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21 and Week April 15 – 21 every year.
What if creativity had nothing to do with thinking at all? What if creativity is an energy that everyone has and uses to generate new ideas, make new decisions and take new actions. What if the energy is blocked, that people do some things that stop it from flowing. Learning skills associated with releasing creativity …
