Live your creativity. One dose at a time.
Did you know cardinals represent creativity? They are associated with the guiding forces of expression and intuition. Think about this the next time one crosses your path. It may be time to invest in a creative project.
…Persistence.
Being creative is something you work at every day, not just when you feel like it. The true rewards of creativity and bringing something new into existence occur only after you have put in a daily practice of work.
Every morning, for the last several months, I have noticed a spider web attached to the driver’s side mirror of my car. The first day I simply swatted it away. But then, to my surprise, it appeared again the next day. I decided to leave it, but with driving and the occasional rain storm or car wash, it eventually falls off. The most amazing thing though is that every morning it is there again. I’ve come to the conclusion that this is one determined spider. Despite losing it’s creation on almost a daily basis, each night this spider spins another web. True creative inspiration.
After reading Jack’s Notebook, I’ve become more interested in creative problem solving (CPS). It’s definitely a tool worth checking out for solving problems in both life and work with many applications.
Do you know a creative and innovative student in grades 5 -8? Sealed Air and the National Museum of Education are challenging young inventors to find a new use for Bubble Wrap. Entries are now closed and the grand prize was $10,000.
That’s the question Michael Fallon asks in his article How Creativity is Killing the Culture. Fallon explores the relationship between the rise of do it yourself creativity and what he believes is the watering down of culture. Explaining that as interest increases in YouTube and crafting, audiences for “good art” and “real creativity” decline.
You’ll never look at color in the same way after viewing this interactive site that presents an entertaining lesson in color symbolism. It will inspire the way you create.
According to research out of the University of Minnesota, people in rooms with 10 foot high ceilings were found to have more abstract thoughts than those, who focused more on specific details, in 8 foot high ceiling rooms.
So does this mean people who think outdoors are the most creative because the sky is their ceiling? Just curious.
A specific type of creative thinking involves using images. Since most of us are visual learners by nature, and frankly can’t escape not being so in our society, thinking in images is a natural progression to creativity.
What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
– – – Eugene Delacroix
Are you noticing a trend here? Companies encouraging and even promoting creative expression. First, there was the Wheat Thins contest honoring women artists, and now Heinz is promoting an interactive contest inspired by their ketchup.
The Top This TV challenge by Heinz is another fun contest to exercise your creativity. Create a commercial for the famous ketchup and get paid $57,000. Commercials will appear on YouTube then the finalists will be voted on by you.