15 phrases that kill your creativity

Creativity, creativity, creativity... We often hear this word in different ways and for a variety of reasons. What is, strictly speaking, creativity? Omniscient Wikipedia informs us that:

Creativity - (creative, artistic) - creative ability of the individual, characterized by willingness to take and the creation of fundamentally new ideas that deviate from traditional circuits or accepted thinking and included in the structure of talent as an independent factor, as well as the ability to solve problems arising in static systems. According to the American psychologist Abraham Maslow - is the creative thrust, inborn characteristic of all but lost by a majority under the influence of the current education system, education and social practice.

You understand, right? Inherent feature lost by a majority of us are under the influence of education and the influence of the surrounding society. What kind of "social practices" are those who are killed in our creators?

That's what we are now and we'll talk.

The fact that creativity is an innate quality of all the people for a long time to prove it is not necessary - just watch the games and the behavior of young children. The fact that the ability to create the majority of people then somewhere to disappear, too, no doubt. Some people somehow manage to maintain and even develop this property, and sometimes it becomes their most important competitive advantage. But more often bright people with innovative thinking are feeling pressure from the gray majority seeking to put "white crow" in the operation of their own kind.

We have collected for you the 15 most common phrases, which once again etched of us still remaining germs creativity. Never tell them yourself, and if you hear from someone - run!

1. "We do not pay for the work!"

2. "You have to follow the rules"

3. "Do not ask questions"

4. "Do not rock the boat"

5. "Stay within the boundaries of"

6. "It's just stupidity"

7. "It's not practical"

8. "You have to be serious"

9. "Think of your reputation!"

10. "No one has done this before"

11. "It's impossible"

12. "We can not risk it"

13. "Well, how do we make money?"

14. "You can not manage"

15. "All have long been coined"

Any person in any place can be creative. Accountants, engineers, carpenters, waiters, and the players - it does not matter. Of course, some professions imply greater freedom, while others - less. But what you were not, you have the right to creativity and innovation.

Despite the fact that creativity implies a violation of customary rules and going beyond established borders, it is in any case does not mean the negation for negation. The goal of any art should be the creation of a new product, phenomena, ideas that will make the world a better place, and Breaking the rules - this is only a means to an end. If all people followed the established tradition, it would have never been rock-n-roll, iPhone, a flight to the moon, and the Internet. Creators just do that violate the border.

Do not listen to nerds, create!