What? You mean now? Like right now? Uh, levitating unicycles, no, wait, monster segways… oh man, I can’t do this! I’m just not the creative type…
Bouncing from brainstorm to brainstorm as we often do in this line of work, I am constantly struck by how many people are convinced that they just don’t have the “creativity gene”. The belief that “some have it, others don’t” is pervasive.
In truth, this makes sense. It’s common knowledge that creativity is, in essence, taught out of us once we start school – “Here’s the way to do this...” And, when we are put on the spot and told to exercise our creative powers on-demand, we tend to perform poorly. Who wants to go through that? I know if that was my main exposure to “creative thinking” then I’d rather suppress any creative capacity than repeatedly put myself through that pressure-riddled brain-racking.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Front End of Innovation Blog: Creativity - Innate Capability or Learnable Skill?
