The Art of Creative Thinking
KEYPOINTS Even if your work in the narrow sense does not call for imagination, the art of creative thinking is still relevant to you. For our lives are unfinished creations. Shaping and transforming the raw materials of our lives and circumstances is endlessly interesting and often challenging. Almost everything comes from almost nothing. It is not what happens to you in life that matters but how you respond. The creative response is to transform bad things into good, problems into opportunities. Remember the Arab proverb, ‘You should never finish building your house’. It is beginnings and the unfinished work to be done that excites your creative mind. Endings belong to God. Fortunately for us, they are not our business here on earth. ‘Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans’ (John Lennon). The freedom you give yourself to make mistakes is the best environment for creativity.
If you want to make God smile, tell him your plans. Spanish proverb
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