How do you view yourself? What identity have you created for yourself? When you tell yourself the story of you, what do you say? What experiences have shaped you? What beliefs do you hold? What values guide you? Your answers to all of these questions make up your identity. They are what psychological researchers would
As a creative person, you hold the power of the gods. You hold the power to create and destroy. The product of your creativity can send powerful companies to the knees. At its height, Yahoo was worth over 125 billion dollars. A few years later, Yahoo crumbled and lost 96% of its value. The sale
Creative people are risk takers. We invest time, energy, and oftentimes a lot of money pursuing our ideas. Ideas that are not guaranteed to work. Creativity researchers have identified risk taking as one of the most important aspects of the creative personality. Simply put, if you’re not willing to take risks, you’re not going to
It might seem counter-intuitive, but habits and schedules can be incredibly beneficial to creativity. Creative people do the unexpected. They mix things up. They expose themselves to new ideas and incorporate them in fresh and interesting ways. On the other hand, schedule and habits invite the expected and mundane into our lives. They reject fresh