Sunday, April 6, 2008

Why we are not Creative ?


Many times we ask " WHY WE ARE NOT CRAETIVE ?"
The answer will appear when we know The Negative Attitudes That Block Creativity..

1st Attitude :- " Oh no, a problem ! "
The reaction to a problem is often a bigger problem than the problem itself. Many people avoid or deny problems until it's too late, largely because these people have never learned the appropriate emotional, psychological, and practical responses. A problem is an opportunity. The happiest people welcome and even seek out problems, meeting them as challenges and opportunities to improve things.
*Definition : A problem is:

1. seeing the difference between what you have and what you want.

2. recognizing or believing that there is something better than the current situation.

3. an opportunity for a positive act . Seeking problems aggressively will build confidence, increase happiness, and give you a better sense of control over your life.

.. Hope that we all now try to change the old definition of the problem & work with the new one :)

2nd Attitude:- "It can't be done"

This attitude is "surrendering before the battle". By assuming that something cannot be done or a problem cannot be solved, a person gives the problem a power or strength it didn't have before. And giving up before starting is of course self fulfilling. But look at the history of solutions and the accompanying skeptics:

" man will never fly, diseases will never be conquered, rockets will never leave the atmosphere, and many other things ....".

Again, the appropriate attitude is summed up by the statement:

"The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer."

3rd Attitude:- " But I'm not creative "

Everyone is creative to some extent. Most people are capable of very high levels of creativity; just look at young children when they play and imagine. The problem is that this creativity has been suppressed by education. All you need to do is let it come back to the surface. You will soon discover that you are surprisingly creative.

4th Attitude:- " That's childish "

In our effort to appear always mature and sophisticated, we often ridicule the creative, playful attitudes that marked our younger years. But if you solve a problem that saves your marriage or gets you promoted or keeps your friend from harm, do you care whether other people describe your route to the solution as "childish" ?

Remember that sometimes people laugh when something is actually funny, but often they laugh when they lack the imagination to understand the situation.

5th Attitude:- " I might fail "

Thomas Edison - in his search for the perfect filament for the incandescent lamp - tried anything he could think of, including whiskers from a friend's beard. In all, he tried about 1800 things. After about 1000 attempts, someone asked him if he was frustrated at his lack of success. He said something like: "I've gained a lot of knowledge, I now know a thousand things that won't work."


Fear of failure is one of the major obstacles to creativity and problem solving. The cure is to change your attitude about failure. Failures along the way should be expected and accepted; they are simply learning tools that help focus the way toward success. Not only is there nothing wrong with failing, but failing is a sign of action and struggle and attempt much better than inaction. The go-with-the- flow types may never fail, but they are essentially useless to humanity, nor can they ever enjoy the feeling of accomplishment that comes after a long struggle.
Suppose you let your fear of failure guide your risk taking and your attempts. You try only three things in a year because you are sure of succeeding. At the end of the year the score is: Successes 3, Failures 0. Now suppose the next year you don't worry about failing, so you try a hundred things. You fail at 70 of them. At the end of the year the score is Successes 30, Failures 70. Which would you rather have three successes or 30 ten times as many? And imagine what 70 failures will have taught you.

" Mistakes aren't fun, but they sure are educational."

Finally We all do things from the above so we have to practice hard to stop doing them .. I'm sure that we will feel the difference soon :D

1 comment:

إنسان جديد said...

begad 2estaffadt mennoh ..
but i think that you need to publish and announce about it ..