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CPS-CreativeConfidence.pptxCPS Week 4: Creative confidence
What is creativity, anyway?
“Creativity is the ability to produce work that is both novel and appropriate”
~ Sternberg & Lubart
What is creative confidence?
Rauth et al. (2010): “a development of trust in one’s own creative skills”
Kelly Bros. (2013): “Creative confidence is the ability to come up with breakthrough ideas comcombined with the courage to act on them”…
Kelly Bros. (2012): “Confidence doesn’t simply mean believing your ideas are good. It means having the humility to let go of ideas that aren’t working and to accept good ideas from other people”
Do most people have creative confidence?
Poll by Adobe Systems, “80 percent of people see unlocking creative potential as key to economic growth. Yet only 25% of these individuals feel that they’re living up to their creative potential” (T. Kelley and D. Kelley 2013a, 4).
Creativity anxiety
“We first created a new measure, the Creativity Anxiety Scale (CAS), demonstrating validity, internal reliability, and specificity. Applying the CAS revealed that creativity-specific anxiety predicted individual differences in creative achievement and attitudes toward creativity over and above effects of general anxiety. Moreover, across diverse content domains, from science to arts, anxiety was greater for situations that required creativity than similar situations that did not. Notably, this effect was especially pronounced in women. These findings suggest that creativity anxiety may have wide-reaching impacts and distinguish creativity anxiety from anxiety about noncreative aspects of performance.”
Daker, R. J., Cortes, R. A., Lyons, I. M., & Green, A. E. (2019). Creativity anxiety: Evidence for anxiety that is specific to creative thinking, from STEM to the arts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
What is holding us back?
“In an interview with Inc., the Kelleys (2013b) claimed, “The big fear holding people back from creative confidence is the fear of being judged” (92),
In the Harvard Business Review they note three other similar restraints: “fear of the messy unknown,” “fear of the first step,” and “fear of losing control”
Building your creative confidence
“Choose creativity”
To be more creative, the Kelleys argue, “the first step is to decide you want to make it happen”
Be-Creative Effect: just being told to ‘be creative’ before a divergent thinking task makes the responses more creative”
Building your creative confidence
“Be empathetic”
“Daniel Pink says that as we move into the Conceptual Age, one attribute that will be necessary is what he calls high touch, “the ability to empathize with others, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one’s self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning””
Building your creative confidence
“Set a creative goal”
“The Kelleys suggest keeping a journal and shooting for at least one new idea a day.”
Building your creative confidence
“Embrace a bias toward action”
“Rather than merely stare at the problem or think about it, do something.”
Building your creative confidence
“Build a low-res prototype”
Translation of creative idea into reality is act of innovation; even a quick attempt toward this can help stimulate further ideas and prepare for next steps
Building your creative confidence
“Collaborate”
The best way to work is to work together
Amygdala
Brain region responsive to fear/threat
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the present study examined the effects of trait and primed attachment security on amygdala reactivity to threatening stimuli
participants who received attachment-security priming showed attenuated amygdala activation
(pictures depicting people engaging in caregiving behaviours and enjoying close attachment relationships (e.g. hugging loved ones).
Turning off fear
Thinking of social support and human connection can make us fearless
Intentionally remembering the causes and people we care about can drive us to be courageous and achieve more than we ever dreamed possible
What determines whether the ideas we generate are truly creative? Recent research of ours finds that one common factor often gets in the way: we tend to undervalue the benefits of persistence.
Grit
“perseverance and passion for long-term goals”
“working strenuously toward challenges”
“maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress”
“approaches achievement as a marathon; his or her advantage is stamina”
https://sasupenn.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_06f6QSOS2pZW9qR
Angela Lee Duckworth
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How to be Gritty
May be determined in part by:
“beliefs about one’s capabilities”
“attributions of positive and negative events”
“beliefs about the relative influence of external causes”
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