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Hey there, innovation champions!
Today I want to talk about “The Creativity Misconception” – it’s a phenomenon I’ve observed in tech companies and teams everywhere that’s holding back innovation. It’s a big fat lie that’s probably lurking in your organization right now.
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Hey there, innovation champions!
Have you ever found yourself stuck in the quicksand of analysis paralysis? You know, that state where you’re so busy planning, researching, and perfecting that you never actually get started?
Well, I’ve got news for you: in the fast-paced world of tech innovation, perfect is the enemy of done. And more importantly, it’s the enemy of started.
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Here’s the pattern I’ve been wrangling with lately — tell me if you relate:
I have an idea for something I’d like to share / try / do.
For example:
It happened again. A very thoughtful, kind, well-meaning person referred to me as “gifted.”
Actually, she referred to me as “multi-gifted.” In the context of sharing me and my work with her community.
It was a lovely, generous expression, and I’m grateful for the generous and loving intention behind it.
But I confess it also frustrates me at the same time.
Because calling me out as “multi-gifted” may lead people to think that creativity is something that inheres in me, in my “special giftedness.”
And that is not true.
And yet, people believe it to be true.
People believe that creativity resides only in special, “gifted” individuals.
And the more people believe that, the less likely they are to see creativity as residing in themselves. To see themselves as containers for creative possibility.
And my ENTIRE MESSAGE is that each and every human on the planet is [Read more…]
Today I want to take a little trip in the way-back machine, back to the year I turned 23.
I was teaching at a nursery school in the Berkeley hills that year. I had recently graduated from college, and was flailing about, really unsure what I wanted to do with my life. [Read more…]
