Creativity

Written by Jim Chaput
After a 19-year career in financial services, Jim left a leadership position to focus on health and fitness. Jim is a Master Practitioner of Applied Movement Neurology and holds Certificates in Applied Functional Science and 3DMAPS from the Gray Institute. His passion is empowering people to help resolve the pain, tension and insomnia that prevents them from living well.

Deep creativity requires strong technique. Otherwise, you always fall short of your vision. As my former movement coach Ido Portal suggested, isolate, integrate, then improvise.

Isolate to develop a foundation of skills upon which you can build. Once you’ve developed some basics, integrate those skills to increase the challenge and explore possibilities. Improvisation is the ultimate goal, but patience is needed. If you improvise too early, your work is always shallow. On the other hand, never improvise and your work might seem predictable or robotic.

Think of it as ascending a spiral staircase. Isolate to begin your upward journey, integrate around the curve, then improvise as you reach a new level. To continue you upward journey, return to isolation of new skills, integrate around the curve and then improvise on the new level…

Where do you need to focus to elevate your creativity?

2 Comments

  1. Pat

    Cooking / preparing new healthy meals

    • Jim Chaput

      One ways to nurture this creativity is to use constraints. When you get low on fresh food, find ways to use it in combinations that you would not do otherwise. Trish is great at experimenting like this. There are no failed experiments, just lessons learned.