Archives for March, 2017
Are you a creative late bloomer?
Malcolm Gladwell notes: “Genius, in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity."
But there are many examples of people who created notable work later in life.
Are Creative People Encouraged in the Workplace?
A bias against creativity
As a contributor to Forbes, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Todd Essig wrote about the reception creative ideas may get in various settings:
"You come up with a great new idea at work, or at But then, rather than grateful acceptance, or even a fair hearing, the idea is squashed, ridiculed, or otherwise ignored."
Being Creative and a Successful Entrepreneur
“Your idea is only as good and bankable as the business behind it.”
Beate Chelette is a career coach and successful entrepreneur. She sold her creative business to Bill Gates in 2006 for millions, and says she is now devoted to "teaching the proven formulas that I still use in my successful business today."
In a section of her site, she writes about The Creative Entrepreneur:
