Tag: creativity and cash

  • Creativity Is The Most Important Goal

    Creativity Is The Most Important Goal

    …allow students to learn in explorative, creative ways, and focus on promoting the habits of self-learning and independent thinking, and make creative thinking the most important goal.  –Hao Jingfang, ‘Education must foster creativity – and fight inequality, 26 Jun 2017′ If we have learned anything of late, it is that we are resilient, creative and…

  • Why Are Artists Poor?

    Why Are Artists Poor?

    New Research Suggests It Could Be Hardwired Into Their Brain Chemistry. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Most artists work for exceptionally low pay. Despite the precarious nature of the art economy, they carry on, ostensibly sacrificing monetary compensation for the loftier reward of creative freedom. But what if some artists are actually—physiologically—hardwired not to…

  • Forget work-life balance, fill your creative cup instead

    Forget work-life balance, fill your creative cup instead

    “Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them — work, family, health, friends and spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the…

  • Why You Can’t Buy Creativity

    Why You Can’t Buy Creativity

    The balance to get right in life is the one between work that pays the bills and that which fills your creative cup. They are not always found in the same activities. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! “The work had better be good, I’m paying them enough.” Over the years I’ve heard this statement…

  • The Creativity Enigma

    The Creativity Enigma

    Studies show that a creative person needs intrinsic motivation in order to do their best work. In fact, cash rewards can hamper creative efforts. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Creativity has never been more popular. Chief executives believe it is the most important leadership quality for success in business, according to a recent IBM…

  • How to Kill Creativity

    How to Kill Creativity

    It is the same old story tome and time again, some people have a very narrow definition of what creativity is and where it is supposed to be practiced. Instead, let’s open our minds to creative possibility. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! When I consider all the organizations I have studied and worked with over…

  • Why Creativity and Money Don’t Mix… For Me

    Why Creativity and Money Don’t Mix… For Me

    This is a great look into the strange pressure we can sometimes put on our creative pursuits. Even Elizabeth Gilbert kept a job which paid her an income until ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ become a runaway success. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! I recently had a realization that I now think has been influencing the…

  • Are You Trapped in the ‘Creativity v Cash’ Dilemma?

    Are You Trapped in the ‘Creativity v Cash’ Dilemma?

    There is an essential link between personal creative activity and working in an unrelated full-time job. One feeds the other, providing a life force. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Sometimes it can feel like a constant battle to earn enough money to justify spending time on creative work. This problem can be particularly acute…