The "newish" field of positive psychology says that instead of focusing on our neuroses and weaknesses, we should focuses on our strengths—what we’re good at.
An aside: If you want to measure you character strengths, go to http://www.viastrengths.org/ and take the VIA Survey of Character, developed by esteemed positive psychology experts. It takes close to half an hour to finish the test--but besides getting immediate, free feedback on your five most notable personality strengths, you'll be contributing to research on the topic. (You can also opt for a briefer test called the VIA Survey of Strengths, which has only 24 questions.)
But back to creativity: If you’re feeling frustrated about your creative work, focusing on your strengths may help turn your attitude around.
My creative strength is color. My sister says that I often take the loudest and even most clashing colors and designs and make them work together in a quilt. I do this mostly by intuition or “feel.” All I know is what I am attracted to…
An aside: If you want to measure you character strengths, go to http://www.viastrengths.org/ and take the VIA Survey of Character, developed by esteemed positive psychology experts. It takes close to half an hour to finish the test--but besides getting immediate, free feedback on your five most notable personality strengths, you'll be contributing to research on the topic. (You can also opt for a briefer test called the VIA Survey of Strengths, which has only 24 questions.)
But back to creativity: If you’re feeling frustrated about your creative work, focusing on your strengths may help turn your attitude around.
My creative strength is color. My sister says that I often take the loudest and even most clashing colors and designs and make them work together in a quilt. I do this mostly by intuition or “feel.” All I know is what I am attracted to…
I also do best with simple techniques...so recently I boosted my confidence by making a back-to-basics quilt composed of squares and circles, buttons and embellishments.
What’s your creative strength? Find it and build on it!
What’s your creative strength? Find it and build on it!
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this strategy of concentration is very common on many countries and it can help to many prople to develop thier minds
I totally agree with this because we should focuses in things we can do we must looking for our strengths in order to minimize our weaknesses.
Like a nice therapy!!
Creativity is the way to loose a little bit our fears and focus on our strengths
I have see many schools of support for young people that doesn't know what to do with their life, I really believe that the parents are responsible for teach them how to since they are children.
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