Danbax76 & Creativity

One day i’d like to run my own business. I’m not one hundred percent sure exactly what that business will be, but I know that before I get too old i’d like to be my own boss. One thing is sure, however, If i’m ever going to find out what or how I am going to do that I should really start getting better at thinking creatively and removing the blocks that hold me back from coming up with more great ideas.

I’ve always been an information junkie. Its embarrassing to admit but as a child I took great pleasure in reading and learning the Guinness world book of records and would then regurgitate the facts to pretty much anyone who would listen. Now, logic, facts and science are all well and good but as i’ve recently realised they will only get you so far in life. To be better as a business/sales person and photographer I/you/everyone who’s predominantly ‘leftbrained’ need to train themselves to be more creative, original and be able to let go of rigid thought processes to be successful. Letting go of the psychological ‘comfort blanket’ that this way of thinking provides is a crucial step in my battle to become more intuitive.

Over the years, mainly in interviews for jobs, I have been asked repeatedly about my own particular personality traits, you know, the ‘so what is it about YOU that makes you most suitable for this role?’ questions. A person with my my analytical nature would talk about being good at ensuring that tasks are approached in a methodical way with unparalleled attention to detail. This, of course,  inevitably this leads on to questions about my weaknesses or ‘areas for development’ (if the interviewer is particularly politically correct). I suppose that this blog is the answer to that.

On saturday afternoon I found myself writing a review of my thoughts about twitter and its value in customer/vendor relationships and social media marketing to my father, who is a head of business development for an global engineering company in the US. My evangelical witterings about twitter are a relatively recent development and in many ways I suffer from those irritating traits of someone recently converted into a cult or religion or a smoker who has finally escaped from the clutches of the demon weed, but it really has made me think differently. Firstly, the way I search for and assimilate information has changed and secondly its reinforced to me how social and business interactions are changing. However most of all, it just got me excited about thinking and developing ideas.

My parting shot in the email to my old dad was essentially ‘if you make sure you do your research to avoid the pitfalls then it cant hurt giving it a try?’ 

Bloody hell, I thought, its probably about time that I started taking my own advice.