Stroller Quiz
Here's a quick quiz: 1) When I see a see a sunrise, I moved to: A. Composes a poem.B. Try to capture the beauty with my paints and brush.C. Stumbling drunk to bed - boy that party was much fun.D. Deck my face with my pillow and go back to sleep. Who in their right mind gets up early NOK to watch sunrises? 2) At work, I am the person my colleagues go to when they need someone to: A. Think of a new theme for the office party (especially if they want it to be a little wild and Off the Wall). B. Get people excited party.C. Organize party.D. Clean up after the party.3) At school I was considered one of the: A. Brains. B. Jocks.C. Nerds.D. Nothing. I was kicked out my sophomore year.Now take this test again and write down what you think a creative person would choose as his answer.Scoring: Well, there is no real goal here. The point is to get you to think about creativity and creativity stereotypes.In another article I wrote, "Quiz: Are Your Creative?", I pointed out that the main difference between creative people and those who are not creative people think they are creative and uncreative people think they do not. But there is one thing to say it, and quite another to live it.I think one of the things that prevent people from fully realizing their creative potential is the idea of stereotypes. They think they can not be creative, because they do not look, act, live, etc., a certain way. And, unfortunately, that belief can be so powerful it really does not paralyze their creativity.Let 's take a closer look at these three stereotypes.1) When I see a sunrise ... You can still be a creative person and not be moved to the paint a sunrise or write a poem about it. Everyone is different and everyone pulls their creativity from different things. Me, you can not take me anywhere near a sunrise without IV drip coffee in his arm. And even if it happened, I would be lucky if I could reach the level of creativity of a turnip.The point is any mouse is different and every mouse dances to a different drum (or perhaps not even a drum, perhaps it is a French horn.) sunrises make you yawn? So what? Find what you get the mouse to dance and go with it.2) At work ... You do not have to act like a bohemian to be creative. In fact, the image of a black-clad, Beret-wearing, long cigarette-smoking Artiste has been a lot of potential artists. I can not tell you how many people I run into who do not have time to be creative, because they are too busy try to see creative.Creativity comes in many shapes and sizes. The dresses in a variety of outfits - from t-shirts and paint-splatted jeans to suits and ties to cocktail dresses to, yes, all-black look.Don not worry about how creativity is related to how you look or act. There is no correlation between two.3) At school ... Again, there is no studies relate creativity to get bad grades or be a social misfit. Creativity is just as likely to have been the class president who was to have been caught smoking in the bathroom. Or kicked out of school entirely. (Now, whether these schoolyard memories fodder for creative pursuits is a topic for another day.) Basically it comes to this - creativity does not fit into any neat box. Whether the box may be unconventional or conservative. Whether it is covered with clay and furious spinning pots or impeccably dressed and churning out one million U.S. dollar deals. Whether it is dressed in black and discussing Satre at a cafe or pushing a stroller in small-town America.Creativity is just that. Creative. The care not what package it comes in.It only care about using it.Creativity exercise - Take Away The Power of StereotypesGo back to the quiz. Look at the answers you chose yourself. (If one of my answers did not fit - which is entirely possible - turn the response to fill-in-the-blank.) look at the answer you instinctively felt a creative person would have chosen. I go by instinct here - not worry about what you read in the article. Or go back and see how you answered before you read article.Do you have two different answers? Describe what makes the answers different and why.Do you describe yourself in completely opposite terms as you would any creative? Why? Do something journaling on answer.Now try to describe yourself again and this time adds statement "and it makes me creative" or "but I am still creative" at the end. For example: "I hate sunrises and it makes me creative. I was a model student, however I am creative. "Write these out ten times every day until you begin to believe it. (Source: Freeing Your Creativity: A Writer's Guide by Marshall Cook)
About the Author:
Michele PW (Michele Pariza Wacek) is your Ka-Ching! marketing strategist and owns Creative Concepts and Copywriting LLC, a copywriting and marketing agency. She helps entrepreneurs become more successful at attracting more clients, selling more products and services and boosting their business. To find out how she can help you take your business to the next level, visit her site at http://www.MichelePW.com. Copyright 2008 Michele Pariza Wacek.
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