Growth Mindset

 

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For this weeks extra task I looked at a Growth Mindset video from Ted Talks called "The surprising habits of original thinkers", by Adam Grant. The video talks about the role of procrastination, doubt, and fear in the development of creative ideas. Grant speaks about original thinkers and how to think like one, coming onto the topic of procrastination, something I learnt was that procrastinators are statistically more creative than those who don't procrastinate. It made me think of how I'm a moderate procrastinator, yet I get things done before a deadline. I get extremely creative just before the deadline of any creative project, I've always been that way. 

Moderate procrastinators are 16% more creative than the extreme procrastinator and the non procrastinator. Procrastination gives people time to consider ideas, it incubates at the back of your mind. Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

In terms of doubt there are two different kinds, self doubt and idea doubt. Although self doubt can be paralysing to a person, idea doubt can become energising. It can motivate to test, experiment and define something. Instead of creating one draft of an idea and casting shadow on your confidence of it, create many drafts and reassure yourself that an idea will form in time, you are just not there yet. Looking out for many options instead of settling for the first or one option can help drive creativeness and idea generation. 

The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, the ones who are fearful yet don't let it drive their decisions, they generate many ideas instead of a few, and incubate create ideas.