$100 Says You’re More Creative Than You Think You Are!

Let’s run a
fun little experiment…

Take a random object around your house—for this one, let’s go with shoelaces—and think up AS MANY uses for that thing as possible.

Go ahead, I’ll wait.

How many
did you come up with? Five? Ten? Fifty?

(If you’re
like me, you DEFINITELY thought of the Hunter using it as a garrotte!)

How many do
you think “the average person” would come up with?

How many do
you think are totally original and unique to you?

The answer
might surprise you!

One
recent study found that people are far more creative and inventive than
they’d ever realize.  The study conducted
an experiment:

Participants were asked to come up with uses
for random household objects (like you did above). Then, they were asked to guess
how many of their peers also came up with the same idea, ranking the
originality of their idea.

Of all the 61
students that participated in the study, most ranked their ideas far less
original than they actually were. The number of peers who came up with the same
or similar ideas was surprisingly low, which means each of the students proved
to be far more creative and original than they gave themselves credit for.

Simply put:
you are more creative, unique, and original than you’ll ever give yourself
credit for!

You are the
only one who can come up with the ideas that you do.

Think about it: say you started out with the same character (let’s play with the Hunter/Nolan for this) as I do.

Think about it: say you started out with the same character (let’s play with the Hunter for this) as I do.

Half-demon assassin with murder-knife and spotty memory. That’s the starting point for the character.

But, because of your unique way of thinking, the Hunter would have ended up going on a totally different journey than he does in the Hero of Darkness.

I can’t even begin to predict it because my unique ideas are so vastly different from yours.

So never
let anyone tell you that you aren’t creative! And yes, that includes your own
inner voice.

You are the
sum of your experiences, and that makes you a one-in-a-million person.

If you have
an idea—for a song, a story, a picture, a painting, or anything else—know that
you are the only one who will ever make it the way you can.

And don’t
let anything stop you from turning that idea into the special, unique, original
work of art that only you can.

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