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The Root Sources of Creativity

Everyone is creative. Creativity is a natural, spontaneous characteristic of positive individuals with high self-esteem. Companies that create a positive working environment receive a steady flow of ideas from everyone on the staff.

What are the factors that largely determine your creativity? There are three. The first is your past experiences. What has happened to you in the past has a major effect on determining how creative you are in the present.

Influence of the Past

It seems that creative people, because of their backgrounds, consider themselves to be highly creative. Generating ideas is normal and natural for them.

Uncreative people, on the other hand, have often had negative environments, starting in ...

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