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Creative confidence

It is so common for us to think that we are not good enough creatively that when we have an idea or a creative spark our first reaction is to dismiss it. And if we do not dismiss it, we often run it through our friend, colleague or family member who would generally dismiss this idea for us. Most often than not by calling it silly or impractical. And so the spark and idea dies there.

Very few of us have the courage have the confidence and the guts to go through the creation of the idea into a concrete form for the purpose of what it needs to be. So some of the most successful and useful inventions in the world and things that we use around us have come from a simple idea. So simple that we tend to overlook it and dismiss it.

What if Einsten ignored the apple that fell on his head??

What if Edison ignored the bulb that lit up his head??

What if……..the list goes on.

As an adult when we are faced with something that is fuzzy and unconventional, we run away fearing judgment of our creative geniuses. What if we stand our ground and accept it for what it is and think it through?

Lets start by being conscious of our creative geniuses and take the small steps that would lead to small successes. This would help us build familiarity with our own self and our thoughts and build that creative world around us that we always dream of.

Creativity Through Playfulness

When we were kids we loved to explore,learn and discover new things. Embarrassment and fear of failure were words non existent in our dictionary. Things that we found in the world around us, whether just sticks and stones or just toys became symbols of play and creativity. Objects became our inspiration to create new things with our hands and our imagination. And this continued through our playful years and well into the preschool days.

And then the inevitable happens. We enter the school system. A system that is so structured, that it washes away all the playfulness in us. It teaches us to follow rules and inhibits us from creating things through imagination. Eventually we grow up to be adults who are just slaves of a system taught to us.

We as adults are taught to think categorically and logically,but to be creative and playful means exactly the opposite. Being an adult means inhibiting that creative voice that speaks to us and preventing it from being too crazy or wild with imagination.

Lets break out and go back to being that little kid again. A kid who has his rules of play and time to play but a kid nonetheless. Starting by shocking yourself out of your normal way of thinking. Finding solutions through creating things with our hands and by role playing. Transitioning from being an adult and a kid lets us to be a serious adult who can play at the same time. You can be a serious adult and play at the same time.

If each of us could go back to being a kid again, solutions to creating a better planet would be the least of our worries. The problems of sustainability, conservation and preservation would cease to exist.

The need and the reasons why companies should advertise cannot be emphasised in any simpler ways than this. Yet, the moment a company faces a cash crunch or a drop in revenue,the first thing to be reduced is the advertising budget.Little do they realise that in the longer term future it does more harm than good.

Like it says the Hen that cackles the loudest is heard the most and so he can sell the most.