We often think of creativity as a natural skill that some people have and some do not. It is also associated to many factors, including conducive environments, ideal collaborators, personality traits and even serendipity. However, research shows that creative thinking involves making new connections between different regions of the brain, which can be accomplished by cultivating divergent thinking skills and deliberately exposing ourselves to new experiences and to learning.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it may seem that a creative mind is an open mind, a mind that looks for endless possibilities, a beginner\u2019s mind<\/strong>. . .<\/p>\n Shunryu Suzuki said \u201cin the beginner\u2019s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert\u2019s mind there are few<\/em>\u201d. . . It refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when approaching a situation; an open mind, just as a beginner would.<\/p>\n Creativity is not only for those with an artistic or highly creative job, life requires daily acts of ingenuity and novel workarounds; so wouldn\u2019t it be wonderful to nurture our creative impulses with a beginner\u2019s mind open to boundless learning, willing to free itself from any preconceive view?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We often think of creativity as a natural skill that some people have and some do not. It is also associated to many factors, including conducive environments, ideal collaborators, personality traits and even serendipity. However, research shows that creative thinking involves making new connections between different regions of the brain, which can be accomplished by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articulo","category-negocios-conscientes-emprendedurismo-y-mas","category-blog"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mx","en"],"languages":{"mx":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Beginners-MIND.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haruyamasaki.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}