The Rewards Of Creativity

The Art of Leadership By Dag Heward-Mills

Primitivization is the return to backwardness, poverty and the dark ages by wiping out creative industries and creative manufacturing activities. Primitivization is clearly the reverse of creativity. Under a policy of primitivization, the majority of the people are forced back into non-creative diminishing returns activities. This is what every leader must fight actively!

  1. Creativity will change your life completely.

Creativity helps you to change the old things in your life by introducing new methods, ideas, or products. You will benefit from the privileges and outcomes of your ideas. This will make you competitive and you will learn how to win at all cost. You will learn the need to achieve in everything you do. You will learn the need to be first and not second or third. Creativity will make you a strong leader. You must be creative because it will make you a hard worker and a strong leader who has his own goals. Creativity will boost your confidence as you achieve greater and greater results. Creativity will cause you to develop in practical wisdom and common sense. You must be creative because you will learn a lot of common sense and good judgment. These will help you to lead your followers to success and a good harvest.

  1. Creativity will turn you into a truly successful person.

You must be creative because it will make you successful in spite of your age, sex or educational level. During the1950s, 60s and 70s, the large majority of people starting companies were in their 30s and 40s. This is also true in current times. Consider the 1980s or today; Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were both in their early 20s when they started apple computer. At the other extreme end, Ray Kroc was 59 when he started the McDonalds’ restaurant chain.

Until recently, entrepreneurship was considered by many to be an all male affair. This is no longer true as more businesses are now being started by women than by men.

Knowledge and skill are very important. However, how you acquire your skills and knowledge is less important. In some cases, university degrees have been known to be a handicap rather than an asset. One researcher suggested recently that one of the biggest handicaps you can have when you start a business is a PhD. For example, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft left Harvard after his second year.

  1. Creativity will make you enjoy your work.

Most people who work in regular jobs get exhausted at the end of the day and dread the morning of the next day, especially after weekends. This often develops from jobs with monotonous procedures and no creativity. Now, an entrepreneur works all the time and thus puts all of his energy into his work. By working this hard, he enjoys whatever he does and because of this, whatever venture he puts his effort into, will eventually turn out to be a great success.

Work is often what one is forced to do. Creative people do not work primarily to enjoy the pleasures of the rich. Creative people do things because they love doing them. Getting to execute his ideas is what satisfies him. For a true entrepreneur, work is not a means to an end. It is an end in itself. The process is as rewarding to him as is the end product. Because an entrepreneur is consumed by his desire to work hard, he gets really no time to engage in trivialities of everyday life.

  1. Creativity will allow you to be in control of your life.

The best thing about a creative person is that he creates his own life and is in absolute control of his life. He does not have to report to anybody. He can take a vacation any time he feels he needs one. He gets to decide what can happen in his venture. Best of all, nobody can fire him. It is great to be your own boss and to create your own destiny.

  1. Creativity will allow you to experience real success.

Very few get to experience real success. Creative people accept the challenges, work hard to overcome them and when victory results, they savour the moment. Even when they fail in the beginning, they do not give up.

Creativity gives rise to new technology and innovations that demand new knowledge. People are always paid more for their new knowledge, innovation and technological change. In fact, a comparison of people who work in the same field reveals the advantage of innovation in creating wealth and escaping poverty. Innovation makes a man walk in the image of the Creator and therefore places him above his fellowman who does not walk in creativity. May we fight for creativity! May we push for innovation! May we yearn for and achieve technological change in all we do that we may enjoy great fruits.

 

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