Royane Real
How Negativity Affects Creativity
By Royane Real
Author of "How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative”
Do you know any people who are always negative whenever new creative ideas are proposed? These are the people who are always saying, "That will never work," or "That's a bad idea". You may even be such a person yourself, always looking for and finding the flaws in any plan.
Is being negative about new creative ideas always bad?
It depends.
Believe it or not, negative people have an important part to play in developing creative ideas. But negativity and criticism have to be used in the right way, at the right time or creativity suffers. Learn how negative thinkers can improve creative ideas.
An ability to be critical of new ideas can be a force for evil, but it can also be a force for good. People who like to pick apart and criticize new ideas can actually be very helpful in some stages of the creative process.
People who are constantly negative and critical are often able to easily spot what is wrong with a new idea. Because people who are negative can easily see problems in a new proposal, these people can actually make very important contributions to a project.
They can help their team mates find ways to correct potential problems in a new project before these problems happen.
The big danger when people are always negative about new creative ideas is that very often, their automatic negative comments can stop a good proposal before it gets started.
If these people make their negative evaluations at the early stages when others are trying to come up with solutions, they can stifle all the creativity in the room. The other people involved may get discouraged, embarrassed, or angry, and not bother coming up with any more ideas.
People who are consistently negative often have a hard time being creative themselves. This is because their own creative self may be too scared to come out anymore, afraid of inner criticism or ridicule.
In many cases, people who are always negative and who are critical of new ideas are actually jealous of the creativity of others. Many of the people who like to analyze and criticize new creative ideas are not really trying to make the new ideas work better. They may actually be trying to hurt and insult the person who came up with a good creative idea.
This article is taken from the new book by self help author Royane Real titled "How You Can Be Smarter – Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative" If you want to learn ways to boost your creativity and your brain power, download it today at http://www.lulu.com/real
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