How to Develop Your Creative Identity at Work: Integrating Personal Creativity Within Your Professional Role

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O. Velcu-LaitinenHow to Develop Your Creative Identity at Workhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8680-7_12

12. Follow Your Sense of Beauty

Oana Velcu-Laitinen¹  

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Helsinki, Finland

 

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to understanding, and ends with reason.

—Immanuel Kant

In the Romanian culture where I was born, there is a tradition when a baby turns one year old. The mother prepares a tray on which she selects objects, like a book, a pen, money, car keys, mobile phone, toothbrush, hair brush, mirror, scissors, etc. Faced with the tray, the baby chooses one object. The adults interpret the choice. It becomes the prophecy for the chosen ...