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Typically when I think about creativity I think of art and the tools used to make art–paint, marble, yarn, thread, cameras, popsicle sticks. Growing up with a mom who is a painter, I never thought of myself as creative. I most certainly didn’t think of myself as artistic.
Lately however, I’ve been discovering this side of myself. I’ve been reading a number of blogs and articles about various forms of creativity, but I never thought I would learn about it reading the Harvard Business Review.
Check out this article via Box of Crayons (a blog I follow mainly for work).
I’m intrigued by creativity and inspiration and where people find it.
Because of Shona Cole I have been looking for inspiration in the every day.
Because of the Disney Imagineers I have adopted the attitude “Dream. Do.”–not to be confused with Just Do It because that usually requires sweat and running and I’m still working my way up to that.
And from Jim Collins, I’m going to consider making time for white space–as if living with four males won’t make that a challenge. You should have seen my sons’ clothes after an encounter with a snow cone at the circus tonight.
Where do you find your inspiration? Where is the most unlikely place you’ve found it? Do you get the opportunity to even look for it?
*I recognize that it takes a tremendous amount of creativity to run a successful business, but I thought about that kind of creativity as different rather than opening my mind to all of the possibilities for inspiration.
| Tags: creativity, Harvard Business Review, imagineers, inspiration, Jim Collins, Shona Cole, The Artistic Mother 6 comments »
March 26th, 2010 at 12:36 am
I struggle for white space. Then I get sucked into Twitter or reading blogs. The art/craft blogs I read inspire me but I have so many it becomes a time sucker!
March 26th, 2010 at 10:28 am
I’ve never been able to find inspiration – searching for it makes it run away. So I decided to just stick myself in situations where it COULD happen and sit there and listen. (One of the reasons I went to the mom2.0summit – and HOO BOY am I glad I did.)
I have noticed that when I am inspired my appetite for music gets all kinds of jacked up and when it is gone it is hard to listen to any at all.
March 26th, 2010 at 10:48 am
I find inspiration in just about anything. Colors and shapes in ads or at the mall will often catch my eye and I’ve started taking pics with my iphone every time I am inspired by something (or a medical poster).
I love this website. I want a huge poster of it. http://500pencils.socialdesigner.com/
March 26th, 2010 at 11:50 am
i don’t look for it…i think i just happen upon it. and i tend to find inspiration in the dumbest things. obscure. completely random and out-of-the-blue.
and then i gasp and declare it “serendipity!”
there’s usually one week out of every two months where i’m devoid of all inspiration and not in the mood to see it. this makes me panic.
but then i see a unicorn or a rainbow, and that’s that.
{did you laugh? good.}
March 26th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
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March 26th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Being outside. Or late at night when the house is dark and all is quiet. THose seem to be the best times for me… (Or after a few glasses of wine. heehee.)