Find your creative spark

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According to a LinkedIn Learning data report from earlier this year, creativity is number one on the most in-demand soft skills list for companies looking to hire. While many people think of the visual arts when they think of creativity, it can encompass writing, music, design and so much more. Build on your innovative approach with these newsletter authors from across LinkedIn.

Here are some top picks highlighting creativity:

Colors: Stimulating the Renaissance Mind through Art

In this weekly newsletter, LinkedIn Influencer Sramana Mitra inspires subscribers to explore their imaginations by highlighting a work of art she’s painted. The vibrant colors spark subscribers to share their feelings, thoughts, reactions and more in the comments.

“I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields.”

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Creative Rebellion Essays: Thoughts on The Art of Creative Rebellion: How to champion creativity, change culture and save your soul.

Author, artist and VP of Product Design at Hulu John Couch publishes this weekly newsletter series focused on creative thinking, inspiration, ideation and discovery. In each installment, he ponders big picture questions and food for thought.

“The point is, it’s in that What if? that we, paradoxically, find exquisite utility in the useless beauty. In those moments when we put the constant demands of life on hold, just for an hour or so, and allow the dust to settle, we can find that the most meaningful things in our lives are the ones that we loved as children but have shelved. On a long enough timescale, all of our works will diminish. Even the immortal works we produce will turn to dust –– all the art, music, literature, science will one day, be gone. So meaning, true meaning and purpose, are found in the now. The complete immersion and engagement with what you are doing in the moment. And it’s often when we connect back to the now, to the active engagement in something that is deemed useless that we find purpose, drive, excitement and perhaps the next great artwork or startup.”

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Vogue Business on LinkedIn: An original newsletter spotlighting our must-read stories from the week.

Senior Features Editor at Vogue Business Hilary Milnes writes this weekly overview of what’s happening in the world of fashion. At the intersection of business, design, and innovation, this newsletter provides a unique glimpse at a creative field.

“It’s easy to forget due to the circumstances that fashion is a creative byproduct, sourced from the inspiration designers draw from their surroundings. When new collections do eventually surface, be it digitally or on the runway, they’ll be imprinted by designers’ individual experiences during this era and interpreted through the lenses of a changed industry.”

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