Featuring a full length sample from a motivational speech by Brain-Storming pioneer Alex F. Osborn, this piece encapsulates very profound teachings on creativity, identity, and ultimately psychology and its relationship to individual well-being.
Creativity can be developed
We can let our creative gift waste away through dis-use
Or we can build it up by taking on those activities which are most likely to cultivate imagination, and to provide it with exercise. That this talent can be developed is beyond question
Psychologists long ago accepted the tenant that any primary ability can be trained. That even an average potential can be developed by exercise
Even distinctly emotional traits can be changed through exercise
To develop creativeness, the mind needs not only to be exercised, but to be filled with material out of which ideas can best be formed
The richest fuel for ideation is experience. First-hand experience provides the very richest fuel, since it is more apt to stay with us, and bubble up, when needed..