How can analogies help us look at creative confidence from a new angle?
Sometimes looking at parallel examples can help spark fresh thinking for our efforts. Share with us other moments when you’ve had to rise to the occasion, conquer a fear or push yourself beyond your comfort zone in unexpected or new ways.
From responding quickly in an emergency to standing up to a bully at school, how can we use analogies to better understand how to create and nurture moments of creative confidence in young people?
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My first day as a freshmen in college was very difficult and uncomfortable to me. If it wasn't for my supportive mom i probably wouldn't be here right now to be honest, I'm extremely shy and don't like meeting new people at all.
Rising to the occasion to be an art program manager despite fears and doubts about my abilities. When others believe in you, you begin to believe in yourself and your creative confidence.
Let them drive their learning
Enable them with enough tools to learn about their best Qualities and their weaknesses at an early age...
Is it easier to think that an artist can be more creative and more confident than a scientist?
Stimulating and triggering basic senses through environment, spaces, sounds and smell. The analogy comes from modern manipulated shopping experiences. Shops environments are designed to make people buy more.
Listening to Angela, a mother of a 4-month old, telling me about her effort to stop assessing her actions in terms of "right" or "wrong" and recognize her ability to act in the moment, becoming a creatively confident or "good enough mother".
Nearly everything we do in life has some sort of recipe or prescribed way of doing it. Something as obvious as cooking or more abstract like creativity — choose something you love, write the standard "recipe" down, and then change at least 1 thing.
Sometimes different ideas can scare people, thus creating social rebuke or bullyng
Draw a Stickman is a simple game, with a bigger message that everybody can play, everybody can draw and everybody can create a story!
Teens want to be active participants and creators in their communities. By having spaces that offer tools and support they are able to create and innovate for their communities.
I'm really impressed by mentally and physically disordered artists' artworks in an exhibition. They don't consider their audience, but express their own creative world.
You don't need cutting edge technology, wires and millions of dollars to repurpose everyday objects. You just need a good idea, like Air France: they designed a cutlery set that you can fold into a toy plane.
Common problems can create “excuses” for creative collaborations. The analogy comes from Apple Headquarters where there is only one bathroom on the floor. So queues form which gets people talking which leads to sharing problems and problem solving.
Bringing kids to Black Rock Desert, or Black Rock Desert to the kids.
Back to School initiative by Future First and The Independent newspaper in the UK. How alumni members can volunteer to go back to their respective schools and give something back.
Replace Education with Innovation
This talk is about challenging some of the preconceptions we have of schools and shows both what could be done as well as what the positive effects might be.
Instead of Asking them to learn something new allow them to excell in what they're already good at.
Creativity is a response to a need in a non-traditional way. Sometimes difficult situations make the best of us by persuading unsuspected solution to special problems, where innovation and creativity are in the same page.
Creativity can't exist if there is no self-confidence. But the good news is that if you lack confidence in one area, you still have a lot left in another. Stepping out of design and into campaigning for the green party gave me back my creativity.
