Episode 49: Embracing your Everyday Creativity, with Dr. Caroline Brookfield
Creativity is our elemental human gift and has been proven to influence resilience, confidence in the face of uncertainty, critical thinking, empathy, and more. Dr. Caroline Brookfield is a speaker who leverages research and data to help audiences realize the value of embracing everyday creativity. In this episode we discuss what creativity is, the benefits of being creative, how our inner critic and fear of judgement hold us back, and the ways to tap into your creative self.
References and Resources:
Dr. Caroline Brookfield Website
Creativity Definition by Caroline:
Exercising the unique gift that makes us human. To take an idea or a thought and face the uncertainty of what it might look like and try to put something out in the world despite our hesitation to think it’s going to have to be perfect.
Flanur Definition: an idler or lounger
Quote by unknown author: Creativity is plagiarism undiscovered.
Book: The Checklist Manifseto, Atul Gawande
Book: Think Again, Adam Grant