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Encouraging Creativity
You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
– Jack London
In this chapter you will:
- realize that you are as creative as any great artist
- understand that you can release your inner creativity
- learn how to become more creative each day
Creativity is what sets us apart from the animal world. True, many animals from fish and crabs to dogs and chimpanzees display elements of creativity when they learn to use tools or adopt smart hunting (or hiding) strategies. But there is no known species that creates at the same astonishing rate as humans.
We are simply driven continuously to create new art, sculpture, pottery, tools, poetry, music, scientific inventions and, well, the list is endless. Even the ...
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