October 20, 2016
Embrace
your strengths
Understanding
your ability and skill level is an important entity for any creative
individual. Identifying your weaknesses is good, but knowing your strengths are
even greater. Its kind of like a physical examine, we know what parts of us is
functioning well. And we also recognize what parts need treatment and help. It’s
basically a blueprint that allows us to work from. This way we understand
ourselves more as creative individuals. It helps us set goals and allows us to
work with our strengths. Embracing your strengths is important because it will
help you grow as an artist. As well as enhance your skill level and keep your artistic
momentum flowing. Once you have realized your potential your able to lead
yourself in the right direction.
I
like to say that putting your strengths into action helps avoid creative
blocks. It’s a safe guard to prevent anything that might hinder our ability to
create. A great way to embrace your strengths is to do something that will
improve and flex those strengths. For example, I would say that design and
illustrating are some of my strengths. So what I would do to exercise these
strengths is to create a logo. This way I can use my illustrating and design abilities
together to create something I know will benefit me. Even if it’s just for fun,
sometimes-personal projects lead to something great. It’s during these times
were able to discover our passion and find pleasure in what we do. Learn to
embrace your strengths to help you become a stronger innovative person.
Rodylan thanks for sharing these great insights and tips. I agree with you in sometimes reaching creativity through the adversity of feeling blocked, by exercising something you are good at. This in turn will engage (and distract) your conscious mind... which is a busy body and likes to think of mundane and stressful things... and then have access to your sub-conscious mind... where ideas flow.
ReplyDeleteSometimes people like to play a certain type of music to 'zone-out' or 'concentrate' to. This is what they mean. I think it a novel idea to engage your analytical mind in procedure (like designing that logo), because it makes you think of parameters that come as automatic to you, so that you can 'free-up' some space in your brain (or thoughts) to be able to make room for creativity.
It is also amazing how when you are a technical person... inspiration can strike from some of the oddest (and most unexpected) places sometimes.