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_19

19. Listen for Imagination

Oana Velcu-Laitinen¹  

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Helsinki, Finland

 

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

—Novelist Patricia Highsmith

Most often, we think of imagination as an activity of the mind which flows unhampered when you are alone with your thoughts. This section discusses how to make our imagination work during feedback conversations. Speaking in analogies is based on associating what you hear with what you already know to explain a present idea better. Listening for imagination is about transforming ...