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10 Ways To Foster Creative Ideas

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This is the twelfth article following The Irony of Quitting My Job to Take a Sabbatical, the first in a series on what I learned and what I’d recommend from quitting my job to take a six-month sabbatical (without another job in sight). Previously, I shared the process of how I came to realize the real purpose of a sabbatical. Here I share 10 ways to foster creative ideas from what I learned in my sabbatical and post-sabbatical days.
Ways to Foster Creative Ideas

“Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and the pupil are located in the same individual.”

— Arthur Koestler

The creative ideas didn’t come initially.

While my sabbatical was meant to be open-ended and exploratory, I was secretly hoping that some revolutionary idea would shine down one day in all its glory and clarity.

Eureka—I’d know the answer to what was next for me. It’d have made a great story, but unsurprisingly that didn’t actually happen.

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5 Lessons I’ve Learned On Dealing With Critics

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I’ve tried to avoid them, but there’s no way around it.

No matter how hard you try or how good you are, you’ll face criticism at some point.

Critics, naysayers and judgers will always be around. And they aren’t just other people; our inner critic is often the most relentless and vicious one of them all.

Criticism isn’t always bad. It’s a natural part of the process.

It comes along when you take a stand for something, do something new or start doing something of significance. If you don’t have any criticism in your life, perhaps you’re playing too small.

Yet it’s tough to deal with any type of criticism. I’ve battled with my internal critic and dealt with a good number of external critics since taking the steps I’ve made in the last year.

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