Obstacles to Innovativeness

A positive and humble attitude in the creative process to redefine, reinvent, and re-innovate one’s commitment to creativity is key. 

The creative process involves both conscious and unconscious elements. Some artists rely on intuition and allow their work to grow "as the spirit moves," while others are consciously active, knowing what they want in advance.

 In the arts, many initiatives support artists in exploring new avenues for expression, allowing them to rejuvenate their creative practices. However, there are also some obstacles that block creativity and stifle innovation.

Innovative Traits:

-Autonomy: Creative individuals tend to be independent and nonconformist in their thoughts and actions.

-Unconventionality: The unconventionality of thought that is sometimes found in creative personas allows them to express themselves uniquely and discover alternative solutions.

-Intuition: High intelligence is common in creative persons, yet while they can meet the problems of life as rationally as anyone else can, their intellect does not rule at the expense of intuition or other seemingly nonrational influences.

-Novelty: Psychological experiments in the fields of motivation and learning have demonstrated the power of novelty as an inducement to action. This stems from the tension that exists between the regularity of daily life and interruptions that bring possibilities of new experiences.

Intuition and Creative Process

-Automatism: Surrealist artists used automatism to express the unconscious in art, recording mental associations without censorship.

-Incubation: Psychologists have found that unconscious incubation often facilitates solutions to problems. Laying a problem aside allows for unconscious processing.

-Intuition: Creative people tend to be reflective and inner-directed, looking to their own intuition rather than depending upon interaction with others to inform their attitudes and responses.

Creativity is the ability to figure out the better ways to do things. Creative people are inspired to think and work nearly every day on creating. A positive and humble attitude in the creative process to redefine, reinvent, and re-innovate one’s commitment to creativity is key. 

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