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1. Creative individuals have a great deal of physical energy, but they are also often quiet and at rest. They work long hours, with great concentration, while projecting an aura of freshness and enthusiasm. This suggests a superior physical endowment, a genetic advantage. Yet it is surprising how often individuals who in their seventies and eighties exude energy and health remember a childhood plagued by illness.
Creativity
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Do you even know if those people or organizations that you place in the box of “competitors” consider themselves to be in the same business as you? Do you have a sense for the unstated, whether secret or subconscious, factors guiding their strategy? Are there people or organizations you don’t even think about right now as “competitors” who may soon overtake your customers?
Thinking in New Boxes
Luc De Brabandere, Alan Iny
I didn’t like the particular experience, I learned I liked having new experiences. Second, although I am tall, I had always secretly defined myself as a physically weak and somewhat sickly person. After climbing Kilimanjaro, I had to acknowledge that I was mentally and physically tough. I was forced to redefine myself. Climbing the mountain was the hardest thing I had ever done, physically, in my life, but I had done it. Of course, part of the reason it was hard was that I had approached it like a damned fool. I was not in shape and not prepared, and I refused to listen to anybody.
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