Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
– John Cleese
What is Mindful Creativity?
Creativity is not what you make. It’s not how well you understand perspective in drawing or color in a painting. To be creative you simply have to have the desire to create. It is this desire that makes us ask questions, try different ideas, and take risks.
We need creative thinking to solve problems everyday - regardless of our job - and creativity is becoming increasingly important as tasks that do not require creativity are taken over by robots and artificial intelligence. Practicing creative thinking is critical for jobs in the 21st century.
Michael Jordan says this about practice:
You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.
— Michael Jordan
That's where applying mindfulness to creativity comes into the picture: using the right techniques to practice creativity.
Mindfulness is the practice of focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while being aware of one's own physical and emotion sensations without allowing them to become overwhelming. For creativity, mindfulness is increasingly being understood as a fundamental technique, allowing people to better observe and understand what is needed and what successful outcomes look like as a framework to develop creative solutions.
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Practical Creativity: The importance of understanding creative thinking in an increasingly automated world.
Practice Makes Possible: Develop your innate creative in all aspects of your work and life as a way of problem solving beyond the obvious.
Being Creatively Aware: How to apply the most current research and thinking to access creative ideas, presented in an easily understood and consumable language.
The Future of Human Creativity: The need to learn creative problem solving has grown dramatically as AI begins to take over more and more jobs.
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