Refinding My Genius One Spark at a Time
I’m an idea guy and today, I think I ran out of ideas.
A few weeks ago, I was having a few good business ideas everyday. Now, it seems that my idea river has run dry.
I am going to take this week to read over Stimulated by Andrew Pek. I met Andrew at a Product Development and Management Association meeting a few months ago. Stimulated is about the science of everyday creation and how ideas happen. It discusses different ways to help stimulate your creativity – your creative genius!
Yesterday, I was reading over Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin (highly recommended). Seth mentions how great leaders show their genius…
A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny b ursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person can do.
It might take a lot of tinering or low-level work or domain knowledge for that brilliance to be evoked, but from the outside, it appears that the art is created in a moment, not in tiny increments”
In order to refind my creative genius, I don’t need to be a creative genius all the time. I only need to be a genius every so often. I also don’t think genius just happens. I think in order to tap into your creative genius, you can take steps in order to be a genius more often.
Enter Andrew Pek.
I met Andrew at a Product Development and Management Association meeting a few months ago. Andrew is a co-author of Stimulated.(I also recommend highly) Stimulated is about the science of everyday creation and how ideas happen. It discusses different ways to help stimulate your creativity – your creative genius!
My goal over the course of the next week will be to find my genius – even if it’s only for seconds at a time. I’m going to read back over passages from Stimulated and follow Andrew’s advice. I’m going to mix up my habits and venture off to new locations to help spark my creative side. Hopefully, my idea engine will start again. Hopefully, it will have more horse power than power.
Brilliance doesn’t happen by itself. Ideas don’t happen by themselves. You need to find ways to stimulate your creative genius so you can show the world how much of a linchpin you really are!
Robert M. Cavezza
(Bob)