Creative Connection

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." very rightly said by Steve Jobs, the innovative business leader of all times.

The VUCA business environment today demands leaders to be more innovative. And innovation starts with curiosity. When curiosity is converted into creativity, innovation occurs. When we talk about innovation, we need to think about our mind over the policy and procedures!

In life, we also need to be innovative if we want to challenge the current status queue, the current practices - if we really want to break them through. We need to think differently, we need to listen more from different people, and we need to try different things. Doing, thinking and speaking the same thing will always end up to the same place.

So, what do I mean by being innovative?

Being innovative means being open to new ideas, new learnings, experimenting with new ways and adapting to the changes. Taking a challenge of doing something that may hurt your ego. Learning from someone whom you never considered to earn from. Listening to people whom you thought less-skilled. By doing this, you will be able to stretch your programmed mind to think differently. You will learn how to teach the mind to be innovative - to connect new dots.

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something....And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.” - Steve Jobs

Once a leader knows how our mind works, they can lead an idea into an innovation, interest into implementation, and curiosity into creativity. Innovation is a tool that enables to jumps over times instead of gradually walking over time. Innovating new ideas can help a person, a business or career move forward with additional growth and success prospects - which may often be unexpectedly positive.

Challenge your linear thinking. Get ready to leap.

Give yourself permission to your differences over the embarrassment.

Onwards,

Ayesha

Mindspeed point in action: See your diverse experiences (personally or professionally) together, rather separating them (we often separate our personal and professional experience) and you will be able to see the dots or patters of social behaviours. And that's what you are going to connect to be more creative! _________________________________________________________

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