Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

Belief in your creative capacity lies at the heart of innovation.

Start with a growth mindset, the deep-seated belief that your true potential is still unknown. That you are not limited to only what you have been able to do before.

creativity “is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Creative confidence is like a muscle—it can be strengthened and nurtured through effort and experience.

The first step toward being creative is often simply to go beyond being a passive observer and to translate thoughts into deeds.

KEEP A BUG LIST TO FIND CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES

At its core, creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you.

One recent IBM survey of more than 1,500 CEOs reports that creativity is the single most important leadership competency for enterprises facing the complexity of global commerce today.

Noticing that something is broken is an essential prerequisite for coming up with a creative solution to fix it. Making “bug lists,” which Tom described in The Art of Innovation, can help you to see more opportunities to apply creativity.