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Personal Creativity Process Questionnaire
Overview
Social, Technological, Economic and Political trends are converging to suggest that
new skills will be required to secure – or sustain – employment.
Smart-Creative people are in demand; it’s is a rising tide. Join in.
To be creative it is important to access your optimal creative state: FLOW
Problem
Many of us have been educated in such a way that we lose creativity. This is
compounded by an over-reliance upon outdated ways of measuring performance
at work.
We are taught ascending “smarts” based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. But compare that
to research for NASA carried out by George Land and Teresa Amabile, which shows
deterioration in creativity during formal education and early careers:
Solution
There is no point in getting into a blame game – but we can reclaim our creativity
for ourselves.
To achieve Flow it’s worth considering how best to set your personal environment
physically, socially, and emotionally. The following model presents the basic
dimensions:
The four steps
1
2
3
4
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Scan Environments to set the climate
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Action: Be resilient to deliver
Impact: Reflect and assess changes
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Personal Creativity Process Questionnaire
To determine if this way of creating is right for you, consider the following
questions.
1
Environment & Safety – who has put you down?
Parents 
Teachers  Bosses 
Peers 
Friends 
Family 
Personal Biases
Do you consider yourself to be Open-minded? Yes  No 
What stops you being creative?
Fears 
2
Friends 
Inner Censor 
Lack of Time 
Imaginative Thinking
Are you already highly creative, or would you like to learn to regain creative
thinking? 
Do you currently use imagination: at work, for yourself, 
3
for others 
Delivery
Connection
Who would you like to connect to? (list three people) ___________, ___________, _________
Strength
Do you need to improve emotional resilience? Yes  No 
Compassion
What top three things are you compassionate about? ___________, ___________, _________
4
Value:
Are you confident in your own judgement? Yes  No 
Are others? Yes  No 
Do you feel satisfied at work? Yes  No 
Do you mostly achieve what you want? Yes  No 
Reviewing the boxes you have mentally ticked above should give you a good idea
about whether you’d benefit from going on to the second stage of the process. This
is a free 10 day overview including a series of thought-experiments that will
acquaint you with the potential to move on...
FlowTracker.org
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