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How Uncertainty Can Boost Your Creativity
Learn to embrace the unknown and unleash your inner genius
Creativity is the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
It is often seen as a desirable trait in many fields and domains, such as art, science, business, and education.
Creativity is often seen as a mysterious and elusive quality that some people have and others don’t.
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” — Erich Fromm
As the renowned poet John Keats once mentioned, the ability to be in a state of “Negative Capability” — that is, being comfortable in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason — is the key to unlocking our creative potential.
But what if I told you that you can boost your creativity by simply changing your mindset? Specifically, by being less certain about what you know and more open to what you don’t.
The Curse of Certainty
Certainty is the state of being confident and sure about something.It is a comfortable state of mind.
