Brene Brown once said, “We can measure how brave you are by how vulnerable you’re willing to be”. While I know she is right, I can’t help being afraid of the word ‘vulnerable’. In my head, I ask myself what I am willing to be vulnerable to? What could I do to be more vulnerable? After much thought and a lot of fear, I realized what I am afraid of. I am afraid of working hard and failing. The fear of failure is very common in our world. Thirty-one percent of people have this fear, which puts it above the fear of spiders. The reason why I have this fear…
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Dreams are Made of These
Life seems dreary right now. It is almost like the apocalypse has actually happened. Most people are starting to get cabin fever and I have been sitting on a couch for almost two weeks. But I know that you don’t want to hear about the quarantine and how that is affecting people. We’ve seen it everywhere online. Instead, I want to talk a little about a fun fact. Did you know that during the Black Death, Issac Newton had to go home because his college shut down? During that time, he discovered the Law of Gravity and he founded calculus. Both of those things are something that we use to…
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4 Things I Learned Last Year
It has crossed my mind many times just how much each topic I have written about in the past five months have related to each other. As I considered this, I often wondered if connecting the topics together would result in a bigger learning opportunity and teach me more about each topic. For those who don’t know, so far we have talked about courage, creativity, gratitude, hope, and finally change. At first, when I was looking at each of the topics I was going to write about it didn’t seem as though any of these would cross over into the other categories. But as I started writing each topic, I…
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What Is Creativity?
We’ve talked about creativity all month and I’m ready to start a new topic, but why did I choose creativity? Firstly, I wanted to know more about the subject. We use creativity every day and yet we don’t know a whole lot about it. We throw around the word like a frisbee and I’ve always wondered if we know what the word is that we are using. The first post that I did this month was about the word and that history. It was cool learning about how people used it and what it meant to them. It was something that was interesting and easy to share. After I wrote…
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The Debate over Authenticity
Creativity is important for everyday people. It allows us to have the freedom to do something that will, in the end, make us proud, happy, and satisfied and it is important for us to do that with our own thoughts and ideas. This is what is known as authentic creativity. Many people wonder about authenticity. Can anyone of us truly be authentic with the things that we do or create? I want to have a little debate with this question. It is one that has troubled me for a few weeks and this is why. I work at a call center. Work can be slow at times so I chat…
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Creativity Isn’t Limited
Creativity is big and vast. People have been trying to understand it in any way they possibly can and I’ve tried doing just that, in a month. I know I usually reserve this week for the conclusion. For this past month, I have been thinking about what I could do for the fifth Tuesday. After giving it much thought and a draft I won’t be using, I have decided that I am going to explain more about creativity. The reason behind this is that I think there is more to learn from creativity. There is more I have learned that I think is important and so today, we will learn…
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It’s Not the Same For Everyone
This month we have been talking about creativity. Last week we talked about how to use creativity for ourselves and be able to do things that can help us work on the projects that we want to work on. Today, I think that all that I said last week, may not all be the same for everyone. Creativity can sometimes be easy for people to get. Some people work every day, sometimes putting their own needs until after they are finished, and that works for them. Other’s can work every day, and when they need to, they can be creative in a whim. For others, including myself, creativity can be…
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Understanding Creativity
I never knew that creativity could be so hard! One of the things that I have found hard about blogging is the constant creativity that you have to produce, from actual writing to social media. While this creativity has been hard, it was harder to come up with a plan on how to create creativity. So, how do you start on a project and generate creativity almost effortlessly from your fingertips? I have a few tips and tricks to help you start on any creative project, whether it is a painting, a book, or a business proposition. The first thing you would want to do is to ask and write…
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The Use of Imagination
Welcome! If you read last month’s topic you know that I chose courage as the first month because I thought it was perfect in what I was doing. I needed the courage to start a blog and I figured a lot of people might need some courage too. After courage, we have the ability to make new things and become more, that is why this month I’ve decided to talk about creativity. What is creativity? The word creative didn’t actually exist in ancient Greece. They actually used a word that meant “to make” and that was used when people were writing poetry. The term was first used after Christianity came…
