Someone once said that creativity is taking tow opposing ideas and making them work together in a clever way–sounds easy, doesn’t it?

If you look at many creative ideas you can see that there is a twist on the norm–the inventor of the idea or art or piece of work was able to take a different mental pathway than what most others would. Is this a learned skill or are some people just born with creative aptitude?

This is the question the Global Shift Blog addresses in this post.

What do you think? Is creativity born or bred?

We attended the Adrian Area Chamber of Commerce’s (www.adrianareachamber.com) Adrian in the A.M. program this morning and the saying “Hope is not a strategy” came up–which of course was going to inspire a wonderful blog post about that very topic. However, Eric Kurjan of Six Disciplines did such a great job with the same subject in this e-paper that we’ll cut to the chase and just encourage you to take a few minutes to read and digest it: http://www.sixdisciplines.com/Strategy/HopeIsNotaStrategy_Kurjan.pdf

The bottomline: Yes, the economy is bad–the only thing worse is being paralyzed by it.