A642.1.4.RB - Your Creative Genius

A642.1.4.RB - Assignment: Your Creative Genius

This assignment is somewhat of a self-assessment, discussing what are my strengths and weaknesses with creating ideas. In general I feel like I know my strengths and understand my limitations. But is a challenge for me. I have never even thought of what my creative talents are before.

My biggest talent or attribute is my curiosity and asking questions. Asking questions till I am satisfied that I understand. I have a broad range of interests in many unrelated areas. But this is also a weakest of mind. If I don’t have interest in topic I’m not as creative. When it comes to things that I’m curious about can’t how my interest.  For the last 6 years, I have been working as a manufacturing engineer working closely with NC Programming. My job was to plan and find ways to make the jobs of the production floor faster and easier. Because of my background as a A&P mechanic I had an interest and curiosity of making the job of the floor easier.

But I had no interest in the NC Programming part of it. But the beginning of this year I switch to NC Programming and now I have question and ideas for process improvements every day. And because of this new founded interest and new ideas of improvement has abled me to use another of my strengths. And that is my ability to express my opinions, thoughts, and ideas. But I do recognize this can be a weakness. Some can find new ideas to be sometimes radical and be spirited in disagreement. And I can be tenacious or persistent — fixating on an idea or project. This is where I possess more tacked, patients, and the political experience to me resistance to my ideas.

Another strength of mind is that of a risk taker. I am willing to take a risk on a new solution or idea as long as there are sound, structured, and feasible outcomes. I am often described as a “high risk taker, or adventurous, or speculative.” These adjectives can be both good and bad description. I am learning when, where, and how to be a risk taker. As with my current job, I don’t have the experience to take risk. The decision I make in a program to improve process can cause time loss, damage to products, or worst to personnel.

My willingness to accept, appreciate, and work if others on ideas or projects I’ve been told is one of my best attributes. I play well with others. I am willing to manipulate ideas by changing, elaborating, adapting, improving, or modifying the original idea or the ideas of others. Are often
concerned with improving the conceptual frameworks of institutions, objects, and systems.

But the opposite of that for me is my straight forwardness. This is something I need to work on, tack and how to say things the way I mean them. I think I criticize constructively, and are unwilling to accept authoritarian pronouncements without overly critical self-examination. But what I say, how it is accepted, and it is interpreted are not always the same. I need to work on this.

References

Gilbert, E. (2009, February). Your elusive creative genius. Retrieved from TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius/transcript?language=en

Mckeown, M. (2014). Your creative self. In M. Mc Keown, The Innovation Book (pp. 1-24). London: Pearson.