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Pump Up Your Creativity and Make It Part of the Powerful New You
Discovering the hallmarks of what makes some people incredibly creative and others are left to struggle is where you want to be. Why not try a little emulation?
Flow was a concept first conjured up by the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a man who founded positive psychology (wasn’t it Martin Seligman, you may ask) and dared to allow himself the joy of concentration, productivity, and creativity in his work and his life.
Pushing everything else out of our awareness and permitting ourselves the joy, some might say the luxury, of totally concentrating on one thing (sometimes called effortless attention) and being absorbed in it is where we find creativity.
It doesn’t have to be centered around our work but can be an indulgence that permits our minds to wander many areas of possibilities of anything, which is creativity. And you don’t have to sell anything to be creative. You can be creative without sales.
It is, as Csikszentmihaly said, “a love” of something. Isn’t that what Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were doing when they were tinkering with electronics to make a personal computer, the Apple? Yes, so Jobs became a billionaire from the projects, but…
