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The Seven Mindsets of Highly Creative People
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Norwalk, CT
Monday, April 22, 2013

 
Curiosity

Curiosity would have to be creative mindset number one. It tops the list because without curiosity, the creative process never really has the raw material it needs.

Openness

Quieting the opinions of the judgmental mind long enough to allow the creative mind the time and space it needs to generate interesting insights, associations, or connections.

Embracing Ambiguity

This is the capacity to entertain contradictory, ambiguous, or incomplete information. To the creative mindset, contradictions are an invitation to further, more focused creative thought.

Finding and Transferring Principles

It's the ability to work from the bottom up, to move from the specific to the general… a facility for abstracting principles or ideas from something specific, and then applying it in a different or more general way to something else.

Searching for Integrity

It's the desire to discover – and the belief that there exists – an insight, or connection that will unite the seemingly disparate elements you're juggling in your creative mind into a single integrated, conceptual whole.

Knowingness

Know there is an answer, and keep working toward that answer with persistence and an open mind.

World Creating

It's the ability to imagine entirely new worlds and everything in them, including the rules that govern those worlds. It even involves role playing roles that you yourself may write.

Learn to tap into your creative potential with simple creativity techniques in Bryan Mattimore's IDEA STORMERS: How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs (published by Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley) or contact The Growth Engine at (203) 857-4494. You can also find us on the web at http://www.growth-engine.com/

Learn how to win a FREE electronic copy of the book Idea Stormers by visiting http://www.growth-engine.com/   

 
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Name: Bryan W. Mattimore
Title: Principal
Group: The Growth Engine Co.
Dateline: Stamford, CT United States
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