Creativity is Not a Gift and Can be Learned

The changing scenario of business climate has made creativity no longer be limited to artists and inventors. Every organization needs people at all the levels who can bring novel ideas to the table. Creative people who can find new uses for old products, new methods to close sales, new techniques for increasing productivity or in short, novel ways to do with very less.

The problem has been there is that most of the people do not believe that they have any creative ability. Our formative years of school have taught us that creativity is a gift that only lucky people are born with. Well, the good news is that creativity is not a gift, but a skill that can be learned by the school kids to the old people and the timing is only better because in the competitive world today, the creative juices are welcomed at the every level in the organizations.

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought,” said Albert George. Sounds very much easy, right? But, when we begin to think about all the things we’ve looked at all our life, we realize how we really haven’t thought about it in a way we should have. The reason is we’ve been looking at those things the same way we always have. Then, how to stop looking at everything around us in the same manner that we always have?