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_5

5. Three Pathways to the Discovery of New Creative Impulses

Oana Velcu-Laitinen¹  

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Helsinki, Finland

 

At a particular stage in adulthood, the development of personality traits, creative preferences, interests, and environmental influences may realign to motivate us into a more harmonious integration of our potential to create with our work. For example, entrepreneur Harriet Fagerholm was in her 40s when she transitioned from her teaching position to entrepreneurship .

“I nourish the creative part of me,” adds Harriet, who has a creative impulse of self-expression ...