Excluding physique and other superficial qualities, what makes one person different from another?

Talent, personality, religion, nationality, language, name…just to name a few. But there is one innate quality that has the power to set each individual apart, if that individual decides to embrace and develop it.

Creativity.

Instead of settling for one mainstream thought, idea or solution, creativity allows us options to be flexible and different. This skill can be defined as the ability to come up with an idea that was never thought of previously. The incredible thing about creativity is that everyone can be it. That moment that the light bulb flashes- the “aha!” moment- can belong to everyone. I can say that I am creative when I’m either pressed for time or when I am in an environment that constantly demands new solutions to a problem. However, my creativity is not limited to situations when I am short of time. I’m also creative when I am cooking because it requires me to process the different ingredients that I am about to combine to be pleasing to the palate.

It’s important to be in an environment that allows for one to generate ideas and feed off of each other:

Connections between old and new ideas, which lead to

Revelations that streamline those initial light bulbs.

Embrace your ability to

Associate different ideas by various people into

Thinking and developing new directions to

Innovate something of

Value.

Everyone can do it!

Here is a video that I find inspiring and interesting because it is creative. It’s a music video for a song by Oren Lavie, called “Her Morning Elegance” that uses stop-motion filming. They used of ordinary objects to come up with something out of the ordinary. Here it is:

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