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 environments that hamper creativityThe fact is, almost all of the research in this field shows that anyone with normal intelligence is capable of doing some degree of creative work. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells. Intrinsic motivation -- people who are turned on by their work often work creatively -- is especially critical. |
Over the past five years, organizations have paid more attention to creativity and innovation than at any other time in my career. But I believe most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation. The anecdotal evidence suggests many companies still have a long way to go to remove the barriers to creativity. Teresa Amabile - head of Entrepreneurial Management Unit > from article The 6 Myths Of Creativity - by Bill Breen, > related book: Creativity in Context: Update to the Social |
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> from article: His fascination with struggle - By Rachel Abramowitz, LA Times, May 31, 2005 -
he is director of "Cinderella Man"
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 Giftedness in adults can be
viewed through a number of lenses. For this article, I want to focus on
five key affective needs of gifted adults: acknowledging your own
gifts; nurturing your identity development; giving yourself permission
to be a growing, changing, imperfect person; taking advantage of and
coping with overexcitabilities; and learning practical coping skills.
In order to improve self-esteem and self-efficacy, it is vital for adults, as well as children, to have a firm affective foundation from which to act. The first step towards building a strong social and emotion base is to recognize and acknowledge one's own strengths or gifts. For many adults this facet of who they are has either gone unnoticed, been ignored or was not expressed for cultural reasons. |
So, if you have not already done so,
take time over the next few days to list your personal assets. Look at
those around you whom you believe are gifted.
What characteristics do you share with them: intense curiosity, keen sense of humor, creative or artistic bents, sensual or emotional sensitivity, intense imagination, deep concerns about social issues, tenacious academic abilities, superior interpersonal skills, etc? If this is a difficult task for you, ask your partner, friends, children, family. Seek their input and validation. > from article : Fostering adult giftedness: Acknowledging and addressing affective needs of gifted adults - by Sharon Lind [SENG / Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted] > photo : Tiger Woods enjoying one of many awards for his talent |
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individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
Stephen King - quoted in the SuccessNet newsletter
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 Creativity Catalystsby Gail McMeekin We know we are creative beings. Yet, we are also well aware that sometimes our creativity stalls, plays tricks on us, or appears to have vanished completely. It is at those moments that we need to reconnect with our vitality around our creative process or project and leverage our inspirational powers to stimulate our ability to make new connections. The following tips are meant to arouse your natural creative gifts so you can surmount those obstacles in your journey and achieve maximum potential. Have fun with them and enjoy the wonder of discovery as you
expand your imagination and allow yourself to be a conduit for
excellent work! 1. Keep a daily excitement list about why you are passionate
and committed to your exploration or creative project |
4.
Experience your project using the three learning styles of visual,
auditory, and kinesthetic experiences
a.) Draw a picture of it, make a mind-map of it, or take a photo of it and play with it on photo-shop b.) Talk about your project into a tape or video recorder or teach a real/pretend class on the topic to an audience or your friends c) Act it out with props and maybe even other characters 6. Go to a toy store and select a toy that reminds you of
your project and let your inner child play with it 9. Find someone who is an opposite thinker (a devil’s
advocate) from you, tell them about your project, and let them
challenge/stimulate your thinking 13. Meditate or pray about your topic
>excerpted from article Creative Catalysts |
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"I am the first woman (and the second person) in my family to get a degree. My mom thought the idea was great, but she said, 'College costs money, honey.'
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.."Here's my mom slinging hash in casinos and restaurants around Reno to make ends meet. ... My boss at Junior Achievement told me about Miss America." ///
"The Miss America Organization has funded my entire undergraduate degree..." > Teresa Francisca Benitez, Miss Nevada [in 2002]
Teresa stunned the judges and audience with her dramatic monologue from The Laramie Project, a two minute excerpt from Matthew Shepherd's father's testimony during the trial of the men who killed his gay son in 1998.
She was named third runner up to Miss America, and won $44,000 in scholarships during the competition in Atlantic City.
....Celebrating Women - by Paola Gianturco
quotes from book site celebratingwomen.com
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 .. .. One wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice. They had these wonderful, slightly grandiose ambitions when they were little that got dismantled as they got older. /// Linguists like Deborah Tannen have pointed out that girls and women have great difficulty asking for appropriate recognition. It seems to be part of our cultural idea of femininity that women are supposed to be self-effacing about their work. |
It's
striking how often women of accomplishment bend over backward to deny
that
they are responsible for their achievements.
I got a call this week from a woman who had heard Meg Whitman, the CEO of eBay, speak at a conference. The woman said Whitman began her talk with a long disclaimer about her success. /// Even more than with sons, parents need to keep their eye on their daughters' sense of self and self-esteem. Parents need to be vigilant and find other things in girls' lives that they can be good at and admired for besides sexual attractiveness. /// Whenever men or women don't have some kind of a community in which their talents and skills are appreciated, they tend to feel isolated and demoralized. One of the great things about ambition is that you not only feel productive, but it produces a social network that is really essential in creating a satisfying life. Anna Fels - from article Thwarted Dreams - by Andrea Sachs, Anna Fels, Time mag. May. 10, 2004
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~ ~ ~ ~Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up
and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them. - Louisa May AlcottWhen I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes
less and less important whether I am afraid. - Audre Lorde> quoted in the Heron Dance newsletter - see page : newsletters
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 .. .. To achieve means to succeed at something that is recognized by the collective. However, she feels little joy in the process, suffering a disconnection from her feminine body wisdom and her creativity. Her task is to find a way of living authentically that allows her to express what awakens her heart. Many Type A women are World Weary. They are seekers. It is this soulful quest for further development that informs this progression. World Weary Woman is not content to live mechanically. The provisional life exhausts her and she knows it. She must detach from who she has been, in order to discover who she is meant to be. [amazon.com] ~ ~
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World Weary Woman seems to be an archetype. It is the archetype of a woman lost in a masculine world, struggling with outer demands for perfection and what life should look like. She is cut off from her inner life, incessantly pursuing goals that are never met, dreams that are never achieved. Barker suggests "This is the nature of her wound: World Weary Woman believes her industry will help her achieve freedom. Instead, she ties herself in knots. "Activity is not the key to independence when unconnected to the Self, her inner center." /// This book reminds me of Women Who Run with the Wolves, the classic by Clarissa Pinkola Estes on women's instinctual life. But this speaks in a very particular way to a specific constellation of factors that create this predicament in women. World Weary Woman is probably more common than we realize. ....World
Weary Woman: Her Wound and |
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| Draw
a line. Take back your time. You can't wait for your heart to bloom
with
a vision in the middle of days teeming with madness and maintenance.
Nothing
flutters into a cluttered life. The frantic and exhausted mind does not
possess the energy to inspire a love-filled path.
But you can find a way to curb or flee the madness. And when you do your dream can find its way to you. ... The hero's journey creates the hero. Heroes don't skip steps, bribe the bouncer or jet off to lush destinations. That's tourism. Heroism doesn't mark a change in position - but a change in self. ....from
her book: This
Time I Dance! Trusting the Journey
of Creating the Work |
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And who needs self-care more than creative artists? Here are ten reasons why I believe this is so.
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..1. To be more comfortable in performance situations - performance anxiety usually stems from a variety of causes....
2. To connect more and isolate less ? other creative artists can provide you with inspiration, understanding and support....3. To have enough energy for everything you want to do... 4. To relax - relaxing, letting go and gaining some perspective on the creative process can help you to ease into it, and to let what's meant to be expressed come out naturally. ///
7. To deepen your creative experience - self-awareness and personal growth will add depth to your creative expression...
8. To stop sabotaging your own efforts - more awareness into the choices you're making will help to shine a light on your hidden and destructive self-sabotage patterns....
9. To take the power away from your inner critic....
10. To have easier access to your muse....
from The Everyday Artist Newsletter July 13, 2004
Linda Dessau - Genuine Coaching Services -
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 .. .. From my own personal experience, I know that it's easy to get a little burned out, and it helps to have other creative outlets. How important are those sidelines to you? Jeff Bridges : God, they're really important. For me, they all come from the same place. It used to be very distracting when I'd get on board for a movie, and I'd be in my hotel room studying for the week ahead, and I'd start thinking of a song or a drawing; I'd find myself working on that, and I'd get pissed off at myself -- or I used to get pissed -- thinking, You should get back to your work! [Hoffman laughs] |
But
I've realized that when you start to engage with your creative
processes,
it shakes up all your impulses and they all kind of inform one another.
Like with the photo book -- it didn't really start with any purpose. When I first got married 27 years ago, I started taking pictures. My photos kept piling up, and finally a book materialized. I've often used painting or music in roles, too. When I'm working on a part, I see the whole world through the filter of that character. I'll find all sorts of things that will apply to the job at hand -- observing people, reading books, anything really. Interview mag., July 2004 photo of Jeff Bridges by Mary Ellen Mark [books] more about Jeff Bridges' book on photography : page 3 |
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Artist Robert Kuo.. came to Beverly Hills in 1973 and began quietly doing what he does best: cloisonne, the art of enameling on metal, and repousse, the art of hammer-ing decorative relief into metal. He's a bona fide L.A. treasure, a master craftsman who in the Renaissance would have been lured to a city to be court cloisonnist. But there's a second chapter to the Kuo story and it is, I think, the Los Angeles story, too: Being here radically changed Kuo's work. Both cloisonne and repousse are tradition-bound art forms, and had he stayed in Beijing, Kuo might have spent his life doing the same-old same-old, but a fraction better.
Here, he felt free to throw away the rule book, just as others have done who came to Los Angeles from elsewhere: David Hockney, Wolfgang Puck, Frank Gehry, Walt Disney, Governor Schwarzenegger.
Gary Walther, consulting editor, Distinction magazine - in an Editor's Note
image: repousse pear - from artist site robertkuo.com
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