EMBRACING YOUR LIMITATIONS
Fear is a companion of creativity. Often times as human
beings, we tend to remain strictly in our “comfort
zones” for the selfish reason of I
can’t do it! never minding the truth of making fear our weapon of
creativity. Creativity, so many a times is viewed as creating new ideas when it
isn’t just about new ideas as you don’t need new ideas to be creative because
new ideas don’t just surface every now and then. You need a new perspective to
life itself. We see the world, and our work, through countless lenses of
assumptions and habits ─ fixed ways of seeing and acting ─ and the ironic
aspect is that we are often unconscious of them thus trading efficiency for
creativity.
Experts find it hard to see a problem from an ordinary person’s point
of view because they have lost sight of how much specialist knowledge they
already possess
A philosopher once said “every
child is an artist” meaning that children see things with a totally
different perspective and in the process cross their familiar boundaries of
thought. A strange sense of unfamiliarity in the familiar reveals opportunities
or solutions you hadn’t previously noticed meaning that you don’t have to
change what you see, you just need to change how you see them. In order to achieve
this feat, you must embrace your limitations ─ the way you perceive situations
should be accompanied by making conscious the thought that there should be
solutions outside what I’m thinking.
An appropriate method is giving yourself demanding challenges
you feel you can’t handle. Research has shown that the human brain is most
responsive in a situation of fear. That is the reason why cognitive reasoning
is more felt in debates because at such scenario, the brain is in a state of
the fear of being challenged thereby searching both the finite restricted areas
and also the infinite space of probabilities where if dismisses the use of
logic and experience and uses probability to create solutions. This rarely used
part of the brain is still though dependent on the level of limits it has been
presented with. In application, when starting out your day, begin with
something you feel you can not do and do it! You’ll find out that your thinking
process during the rest of the day is improved.
Prevent fear from being a tool that is used to keep you from
doing challenging task and use it as an arbitrary instrument to measure and
classify the things you run from doing. If you feel that you can’t write as
good as someone else, then start writing. You’ll be so much surprised at how
much you can do by just doing it. Why is it that determined people are usually
successful? Why is it that determined people are always courageous?
Determination, courage and success are all linked by the underlying principle
of embracing one’s limitations, and fear isn’t their enemy, rather is the tool
used to differentiate the easy from the daunting.
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