Chapter 6Mindful Creativity at Work

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it; they just saw something.

—Steve Jobs

Creativity can be enormously profitable in all areas of our lives, including our working lives, because it gives us the power to do more than we think we can. Creativity can create infinite opportunities for us to do anything and everything, because it allows us to break out of our ruts. We will do any job better and also more enjoyably, even if it’s one not traditionally thought of as “creative,” if we can tap into our natural creativity.

We are all naturally creative, whether we think we are or not, just as we are all naturally mindful, whether we think we are ...

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