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Hoagies' Blog Hop: Creativity and Productivity
 Creativity
and Productivity. Gifted individuals frequently need to move beyond
the rules. We play a game (or we play at life) with normal rules
once, and then the rules need to be changed, expanded, adapted
because they have this need to be part of the process, never just
accepting what they're given. It's when they have choices A, B, & C
and instead have to come up with option D mixed with a bit of F,
since simply accepting or going along with someone else's point of
view would be unthinkable. What does Gifted Creativity and
Productivity mean to you?
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops on related topics,
including
Blog Hop: Multipotentiality
and Blog Hop: The "G" Word.
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Blog Hops for all our past and future topics.
Special thanks to Pamela S. Ryan for our striking Blog Hop graphics!
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 Ignite
creative fire in your gifted child by
Gail Post in
Gifted Challenges
- Gifted children, in particular, thrive when given free reign to express
their creative interests. Intrinsically motivated and intellectually
curious, when comfortable expressing their creative ideas and inspirations,
they engage fully in school. When these instincts are thwarted by too many
rules, boredom in the classroom, or an emphasis on outcome and performance,
they may comply, but their creative drive is sacrificed...
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 Meet
Your Muse by Paula Prober,
Your Rainforest Mind
- Maybe we all have Muses. After all, everyone needs inspiration. No
matter what we're doing. An inspiring spirit with creative ideas? What's not
to like?
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Rules for Being Our Gifted Selves by Ana Maria,
Gifted Culture Project
- I offer two rules that my ten-plus years of academic and professional
experience have taught me about the ways of the jungle. Two brave and
important exercises that have become daily practices for me and, while I may
be a long way from perfecting them, that’s ok because perfection was never
the point. I practice to set myself free from the limits and faults that I
was taught by cultures that didn’t know how to make sense of me...
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Creativity and Productivity by Linda Wallin,
Living with Geniuses
- Productivity can be unrelated to creativity, such as my productivity
making cathode ray tubes at the Methode factory south of town. A group of
college kids worked there in the summer, making the tubes and computer parts
that probably don't exist now. We were very productive, but I wouldn't say
it involved any creativity. And I come from family of people who started
lots of things they didn't finish. Is it productivity if it is something
that never gets used?
However, productivity is important in the workplace of ideas...
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Natural
Innovators by
Heather in WonderSchooling
- This innovation, this ability to think outside the box, is a huge asset
that will serve him well later in life -- if we can figure out how to
navigate these early years in a way that celebrates and channels his
creative impulses.
That is the big challenge for us as parents and educators - how can we
celebrate this unique ability to think in unorthodox ways, not squash their
enthusiasm, but also help them learn when it would be helpful for them to
choose to follow directions and be part of the group...
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 Beyond
a Definition, the Creative Experience by
Jessie in
CounterNarration
- Just what is creativity anyway? Your answer will surely differ depending
on whether you're a creative thinking instructor trying to sell a a training
seminar to respectable and highly credentialed professionals, or a grown-up
gifted kid seeking respite from her cubicle and hoping to bring a splash of
color back to the workplace...
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At
the intersection of creativity and life by Jen Merrill,
Laughing at Chaos
- Life is messy. It zigs when you think it'll zag, chases rainbows through
the mud, never remembers to remove its shoes when it comes in the house. My
natural tendency is to work before play, to tidy up life before diving into
the creativity ball pit of fun, to deny myself the restorative act of
creativity until a future "later." News flash: that doesn't work. Work is
never done, life refuses to be tidied, and denying myself creativity is as
moronic as denying myself oxygen.
So again, it's a balance...
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Updated
December 01, 2020
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