Friday, June 12, 2009

Creativity and Work

Yesterday I read an article mentioning the efforts of a person in making eatable spoons and plates, not the disposable ones. He said that, when he was travelling by flight, he was offered snacks along with disposable spoons and plates. But he was reluctant to use them and then got an idea like, why can't we make these as an eatable ones? This idea made him to work for years before finding a suitable mix of the ingredients and finally coming out with a bang of success and opening his own factory in AP.
This article reminds me of a statement, as one of my friend said that "the work that I am doing doesn't allow me to do anything new and think creatively". I feel it is not the work which lacks creativity but it is the attitude of a person towards that work which enables him to think divergently. If your attitude results in an under arousal, you would be complacent and if your attitude results in over arousal, you start thinking convergently. It is the moderate arousal mixed with a right kind of attitude toward the work, which enables a person to be creative.

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