Overcoming Mindsets whilst Managing a Creative Environment

Creativity is more than a way of thinking.  It encourages you to broaden your minds and assist you to explore your general curiosity of coming up with fresh new idea’s that create an element of surprise,  than giving into our traditional way of doing things. This supports a creative practitioner to challenge their initial connections or idea’s we would typically make when problem solving. When being creative one must overcome negative attitudes towards creative thinking, overcoming mindsets helps you to tackle your everyday problems, social life and relationships. By a conventional approach to avoid habitual thinking. It serves a purpose to support a person to go beyond the predictable and easy road and find u- turns to help broaden the mind to all possibilities and be given the opportunity for true creative expression.

To be creative is to take risks and learn from our mistakes and being able to get out of our comfort zone.  Being safe with an idea prevents the skillful and spontaneous thinking that most negative people lack, to avoid thinking of the bad things, prevents an individual to take risks and be crazy and enthusiastic in their work, which will help them gain creative results. Limitation prevents the true creative expression of a brilliant idea. To truly become a creative practitioner within the creative industry you must overcome negative attitudes towards things and let go of perfectionism. To challenge oneself to produce a creative art piece is to have the desire to be inspired by it. As students we are encouraged to cross boundaries and break rules to remove ourselves from familiarity and to work towards originality.

A working environment influences you to experiment and work creatively. The availability of a stable working environment assists in the production of coming up with creative idea’s and your development of creativity and originality. A stimulating place can allow creative individuals to interact and broaden their minds.  Culture is an important part of our lives it motivates unique and creative idea’s and helps us to keep up with changes in society and our lifestyle. For example Popular Culture not specifically art in western societies are coming up with new ideas and inventions that stimulate our environment, to reveal what is around you helps you to see things in life from a creative perspective and is centered on freedom of expression. Collecting helps you to appreciate and be passionate about a subject. It can help you to reflect your own interests within your idea’s and be inspired by your surroundings, for example my working environment helps stimulate a secure space to experiment and bring new and fresh idea’s to the table challenging typical mindsets.