Creative Thinkers=Creative Doers
Creative Thinking; Drives Innovation

Every "creative" work begins as a mere thought. Can people train themselves to become creative? Yes - what you "do" with that very first thought about something is crucial.

If you "dismiss it" because you think it's; not original enough, is too much like "XYZ," not "good" enough... [more]

Every "creative" work begins as a mere thought. Can people train themselves to become creative? Yes - what you "do" with that very first thought about something is crucial.

If you "dismiss it" because you think it's; not original enough, is too much like "XYZ," not "good" enough, or an entire host of other reasons...you may have just killed what could have developed into a million dollar idea.

That is right. Nearly every creative idea, must be developed. Very few masterpieces "came" to the maestro "all at once."

It does happen occasionally. As a singer/songwriter myself, I have experienced having a song (music composition, and the words) "come" to me all at once; jotting down the words as fast as I could write; but this is the exception to the rule.

Take short story writing for another example. It always begins with a single sentence (which began as a thought) then progresses and is developed into the full story.

The writer thereof usually has no idea where he is going with the story - until it develops, just as sure as a flower opens itself into full bloom to array its glory, the story begins with the opening.    [less]