This is a Matt Jones poster sold through creative commons.
Creativity comes in many forms and saying you aren’t creative is like saying you are not a human being. Everyone creates. Those who harness it are the ones who have an advantage in this current job market, life, and their overall life experience.
Let’s say you can’t draw, paint or sculpt so you decide you aren’t creative. But maybe you are excellent at creating codes for computer programming ….and you love doing it.
Or maybe you are really good with people and able to persuade the most unbending nasty types to work with you or in a group.
Maybe you are quiet, observant and create analysis, which yield amazing findings that add to our lives. The point is, to create is human and we are all creative.
What do you like to create? A discussion, a poem, a painting, a new way of learning for someone who thought they just couldn’t learn? We all have talents that require honing and paying attention to. When we do that, we shine. We get noticed and before you know it, you are asked to create what it is you do on a regular basis. You get recognition for your talents and people want to pay you for them. THAT is how to get started…
Some like to create an answer to a need. Some create products to needs we didn’t know we had. What are you good at? Start doing it because you really enjoy it and the rest will follow.
So MAKE THINGS and make things happen.
- Check out “Getting a chance and takin’ it” – two guys who did what they loved to do and built careers from it. Dzyn Ur Lyf
- dzyn Mash Up puts creating into focus -taking sustainable design to a whole new level. The possibilities are endless and inspirations limitless for ways to recreate, rethink, repurpose and redesign. It’s not all about arts and crafts.
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