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You Don’t Need Others to Feel Creative
4 positive steps to regain your creative confidence
When constantly working in groups, it is easy to doubt your creative potential, as all your ideas are usually inspired by the ideas of others.
You may even think that you are unable to innovate on your own without group consultation.
But while the value of collective thinking is certain, human projects have always been fueled by individual brains. Your neurons make more unexpected connections than your meetings will ever do.
And the more you lose confidence in your creative potential, the more you will lose this intellectual energy.
How to recover your creative confidence to illuminate your projects with original ideas?
According to David and Tom Kelley in Creative Confidence, you can regain your belief in your creativity by forcing yourself into new experiences.
The most creative professionals have learned to reflect on their “creativity scars’’, reappropriating their self-mastery, embracing their mistakes, and creating in more visual and playful ways.
Using their examples, here are 4 steps to put a spark of creativity back in your projects and take them in hand.
