Doris King Designs
Art Jewelry, Metalsmithing, Certified PMC Instructor &
Creativity Coach / Consultant
Creativity Coach / Consultant
Copyright 2007-12
All Rights Reserved
info@dorisking.com
All Rights Reserved
info@dorisking.com
Thoughts on Creativity
Creativity is most often described as our ability to be imaginative, inventive, resourceful, and original.
Each of us has creative potential. Ideas and the possibilities for how we use ideas are born in our creative mind. How do you use your creativity?
Being creative as a maker of art is one choice. We most often associate creativity with art and craft; yet, our creative mind is an unlimited resource and influences all aspects of our life.
Are you solving the math problem or helping your child learn how to solve the problem? Are you following a recipe or developing your own recipe? Are you writing the years schedule or considering how other's needs may influence the schedule?
As a jewelry designer and metalsmith, I use my creativity to develop and execute designs.
As a teacher, I use my creativity to listen, and to communicate ideas, procedures, and techniques. Creative thinking helps align the delicate balance between listening and providing information.
As a coach, I use my creativity to listen with an open mind, ask questions that encourage introspection and imagination, guide creative problem solving, and affirm each person's creative wisdom.
In the book, The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida sites numerous examples of how creativity is changing business and influencing cultural and population growth.
Especially in this time of economic stress, it behooves us to become acquainted with our creative self. Creative thinking can help us de-stress, re-organize, refresh, and re-invent.
It helps to discern when and how we use the creative and critical parts of our mind.
It also helps to understand why we sometimes find it difficult to connect with our creativity.
" Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment."
Matthew Fox, Creativity
Creativity is our ability to be innovative, imaginative, and resourceful. These qualities enhance communication, collaboration, problem solving, and our flexibility.
Creative thinking allows us to see possibilities.
Whether faced with a design challenge or a life challenge, our creative thinking can spark the resource that enables us to open the door of the proverbial box that we may find ourselves in.
So why do we sometimes have difficulty thinking "outside the box"? Reflect for one minute on just one day of your life. What's it like?
Our daily routines are usually structured with logic and reason. We quickly learn the value of following the system. We go forward, adjusting within the framework of each new system, whether at home or work, managing, organizing, planning and becoming masters of multitasking.
Our culture not only praises order and logic, our society also evaluates with judgment and reason. We are rewarded, promoted, and demoted according to how we fit in the system.
It doesn't take long for us to learn that logical, methodical left-brain thinking is vital to our acceptance and survival. As a result, because of our conditioning and our environment, we spend most of our time thinking with the left side of our brain.
When an event occurs that changes our usual pattern of behavior, we can feel thrown off track. We look for the framework or procedure that leads us toward the next step.
When we're unable to locate a system that will help us navigate, we find ourselves in that proverbial box, looking for a way out.
Creative thinking can open that door.
Imaginative and inventive, our creative right brain is a natural part of us; wisdom we allow, not force.
Possibly that's the difficult part; accepting that our creative wisdom is more available to us when we step out of the structure and routine that ordinarily supports us. It is frequently in that new and unfamiliar space where the resources of our imagination are waiting.
Step aside from your usual routine. Quiet your mind. Listen. Daydream. Imagine. Play. Observe nature. Surround yourself with a supportive environment of non-judgment. Explore your ideas. Trust.
Nurture and invite creativity.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
A Few More Thoughts To Ponder…
"Pessimism comes with the repression of creativity."
Otto Rank
"For the artist, a wing and a prayer is routine operating procedure. We must trust our process, and look beyond "results".
Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way
"Our thinking creates problems that the same type of thinking cannot solve."
Albert Einstein
"…creativity happens at the border between chaos and order."
Matthew Fox, Creativity
"We are not here to do what has already been done. Artists are travelers on the road to self-discovery."
Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
"Creative people are indeed the chief currency of the emerging economic age."
Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class
Creativity is most often described as our ability to be imaginative, inventive, resourceful, and original.
Each of us has creative potential. Ideas and the possibilities for how we use ideas are born in our creative mind. How do you use your creativity?
Being creative as a maker of art is one choice. We most often associate creativity with art and craft; yet, our creative mind is an unlimited resource and influences all aspects of our life.
Are you solving the math problem or helping your child learn how to solve the problem? Are you following a recipe or developing your own recipe? Are you writing the years schedule or considering how other's needs may influence the schedule?
As a jewelry designer and metalsmith, I use my creativity to develop and execute designs.
As a teacher, I use my creativity to listen, and to communicate ideas, procedures, and techniques. Creative thinking helps align the delicate balance between listening and providing information.
As a coach, I use my creativity to listen with an open mind, ask questions that encourage introspection and imagination, guide creative problem solving, and affirm each person's creative wisdom.
In the book, The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida sites numerous examples of how creativity is changing business and influencing cultural and population growth.
Especially in this time of economic stress, it behooves us to become acquainted with our creative self. Creative thinking can help us de-stress, re-organize, refresh, and re-invent.
It helps to discern when and how we use the creative and critical parts of our mind.
It also helps to understand why we sometimes find it difficult to connect with our creativity.
" Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment."
Matthew Fox, Creativity
Creativity is our ability to be innovative, imaginative, and resourceful. These qualities enhance communication, collaboration, problem solving, and our flexibility.
Creative thinking allows us to see possibilities.
Whether faced with a design challenge or a life challenge, our creative thinking can spark the resource that enables us to open the door of the proverbial box that we may find ourselves in.
So why do we sometimes have difficulty thinking "outside the box"? Reflect for one minute on just one day of your life. What's it like?
Our daily routines are usually structured with logic and reason. We quickly learn the value of following the system. We go forward, adjusting within the framework of each new system, whether at home or work, managing, organizing, planning and becoming masters of multitasking.
Our culture not only praises order and logic, our society also evaluates with judgment and reason. We are rewarded, promoted, and demoted according to how we fit in the system.
It doesn't take long for us to learn that logical, methodical left-brain thinking is vital to our acceptance and survival. As a result, because of our conditioning and our environment, we spend most of our time thinking with the left side of our brain.
When an event occurs that changes our usual pattern of behavior, we can feel thrown off track. We look for the framework or procedure that leads us toward the next step.
When we're unable to locate a system that will help us navigate, we find ourselves in that proverbial box, looking for a way out.
Creative thinking can open that door.
Imaginative and inventive, our creative right brain is a natural part of us; wisdom we allow, not force.
Possibly that's the difficult part; accepting that our creative wisdom is more available to us when we step out of the structure and routine that ordinarily supports us. It is frequently in that new and unfamiliar space where the resources of our imagination are waiting.
Step aside from your usual routine. Quiet your mind. Listen. Daydream. Imagine. Play. Observe nature. Surround yourself with a supportive environment of non-judgment. Explore your ideas. Trust.
Nurture and invite creativity.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
A Few More Thoughts To Ponder…
"Pessimism comes with the repression of creativity."
Otto Rank
"For the artist, a wing and a prayer is routine operating procedure. We must trust our process, and look beyond "results".
Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way
"Our thinking creates problems that the same type of thinking cannot solve."
Albert Einstein
"…creativity happens at the border between chaos and order."
Matthew Fox, Creativity
"We are not here to do what has already been done. Artists are travelers on the road to self-discovery."
Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
"Creative people are indeed the chief currency of the emerging economic age."
Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class