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How Creative are You?
Scoring: How Creative Are You?
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An Interpretation of Your Score
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You are creative occasionally. You may enjoy life more by being creative more often. Consider spending more time playing with children.
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You are creative sometimes. You may like to speculate upon this question: What would your life be like if you were creative even more often?
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You are often creative. Keep playing!
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Comments about the Questions
Question 1: Busyness
If we are too busy, there is no time for creating.
Question 2: Cooking in Life
Being Creative includes a willingness to make things up based upon what is in front of you.
Question 3: Reflection Time
Being Creative often comes from taking time out to reflect on things.
Question 4: Listening and Speaking
Our interpretation is that listening is more important than speaking for Being Creative because your listening shapes what you say and it also shapes how you respond to what other people say.
Question 5: Past, Present or Future
Whilst creative actions requires a focus on the present, the motivation for Being Creative requires some orientation to the future.
Question 6: Choosing Food in a Restaurant
Being Creative shows up everywhere in our lives and relates to our willingness to explore new things.
Question 7: Knowing
The more we think we know the less room or need there is to create something new. Being arrogant (or thinking we know too much) is a great way to kill the opportunity for being creative! It is also not enough to merely assess how much we know, a desire to know more is a powerful motivator for looking fo rnew ideas.
Question 8: Decision Making
Trusting your intuition is a powerful way of Being Creative.
Question 9: Self Assessment
To quote Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can or not, you’re right!” The assessments we hold about ourselves are a critical factor in determining who we are in life.
Question 10: Designing Your Life
Whilst ‘Doing Creative’ is important, our interpretation around ‘Being Creative’ focuses on who you are, how you see the world and consciously designing yourself and your life.
Question 11: Being Playful
One aspect of Being Creative is being playful in life. The level of permission we gives ourselves to be playful can either open or close the door for you to be creative.
Question 12: Uncertainty
Our attitudes to the uncertainties of living, impact the moods we find ourselves in. Some moods, such as wonder and curiosity, predispose us to be more creative. Other moods, such as anxiety, resist the opportunity to be creative.
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