Articles Your Creative GAPS - The Second Myth by Robert Alan Black
| Your Creative GAPS - The Second Myth by Robert Alan Black |
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The second myth is that attitude or atmosphere does not affect creativity or creativeness. The easiest way to dispel this is to think about when you have been creative most recently. How did you feel? How did you feel about yourself? Chances are “positive" is your answer. Consider if your boss, supervisor or manager deliberately became negatively autocratic, forcing rules on everyone, picking at every minor mistake or error, and stood over your shoulder continually. How creative might you be?How easily could you tap your creative potential? How easily would your creativity "flow"?
Therefore a support environment can make a difference. A strong supportive relationship between VAs and their clients can make a tremendous difference in the success of their work together. Yet, is it only a supportive external environment, that enables us to be creative? No. It is the mental environment inside that makes the difference. Viet Nam prisoners, as well as, prisoners of many other wars have reported the use of their creativeness even in conditions of extreme inhumane treatment. Painters, writers, sculptors, poets, engineers, inventors and business people have all reported how they capitalized on their creative potential even in extremely depressed periods of their lives. What then is the factor? Internal control. Internal drive. Commitment to create, to solve a problem, to make a breakthrough with or without, an externally supportive environment. As a VA, take into consideration the mood of your clients, the environment that you work in with them and do everything you can to make a positive to inspirational: décor, colours, sound, smells or tastes perhaps. Positive, happy people are more creative.Start your meetings with smiles and laughs. End your meetings with smiles and laughs.
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