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_8

8. Crossing Paths with a New Curiosity

Oana Velcu-Laitinen¹  

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Helsinki, Finland

 

It took a long journey to realize that surreal fine art photography was the way I could express myself.

—Artist photographer Dasha Pears

Let’s consider a contemporary parable written by writer David Foster Wallace: “There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water today?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks ...