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_7

7. Allow Your Tiny Genius to Roam Outside Your Comfort Zone

Oana Velcu-Laitinen¹  

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Helsinki, Finland

 

What is genius? Most often, genius makes us think of people of superior intelligence who radically transformed the domains where they contributed and, as a result, enabled technological, economic, and societal advancements. But it hasn’t always been this understanding. In ancient Roman mythology , every man and woman was born with a unique genius, which, for men, took the form of a guardian angel following him from birth to death. The genius of women ...