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Creative Success Essay

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The notion that everyone has the potential to be creative doesn’t effectively increase competition and make it harder to be recognized as a professional creative industries practitioner. Even though everyone is in some way creative or imaginative does not mean that they will be successful. This is because of three main reasons. Some people have greater ability at being creative and imaginative than others. Some people don’t have the time or resources necessary to reach their creative potential. And others simply think that creativity is not something that they can make a living from and therefore don’t embrace or develop their imagination.

Creativity is the process in which a person discovers new ideas or concepts, or new associations …show more content…

The same concept applies to creativity. If you show some basic ability in being creative doesn’t mean you will be successful, it is possible, but highly unlikely. The study mentioned above reveals that we are naturally creative and as we grow up we learn to be uncreative. This means that like almost every other industry in the world, it is only the one who excel in their individual field that are most likely to be noticed and become successful. Although there are some techniques to improve your creative ability, think of them as soccer training. It will improve your skills, but to play at the top, a person is going to need a certain amount of natural talent as well as years of training. Although everyone is born with similar amounts of natural talent, that which is left at the beginning of adulthood is far more important. It is during our journey to adulthood that is where we lose it all. Throughout our childhood we are taught to be less creative. In early childhood, we reach a point where our parents give up and tell us to stop asking so many questions. During our schooling, we are told to conform to the approved practices and to automatically accept everything that is said by the teachers as absolute fact. Socially we learn that to be accepted we must abandon creative activities such as art and writing as it is considered “uncool”. And so by the time we reach

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