The Creator Mindset: 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability by Nir Bashan

The Creator Mindset: 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability by Nir Bashan

Author:Nir Bashan [Nir Bashan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2020-08-03T16:00:00+00:00


1. Inflated Ego Is Tied to the Good Old Days

In many ways, inflated ego develops on top of a previous success or two. This is very important to recognize. There is no business anywhere in the world that has continued to survive unless at some point it had some success. The same thing is true of any career. It is probable that you would have been fired if you didn’t have a previous success or two. That success could be big or small. It could be incremental or a tidal wave of success. But no matter how much success you’ve had so far, there is a foundational aspect that one thing or many things have happened at some point in the timeline of the company or career that have given you the ability to keep the lights on.

We fool our ego into believing that we have had these successes because we “know what we are doing,” and that is the basis for not wanting to change anything or learn anything new; an inflated ego is the result. This becomes particularly damaging in the implementation of creativity because creativity depends on having a flexible viewpoint. Being open to different opinions and a diversity of information allows creativity to emerge. You cannot have a flexible viewpoint if your ego will not look at your mistakes creatively and use Chapter 8’s unlikely personality traits of humor, empathy, and courage and the host of other tools The Creator Mindset has to allow creativity to work for you.

The belief in the good old days must be challenged and challenged repeatedly. This starts with allowing success to be appreciated but not falling in love with one’s ego at every turn. It’s a personal decision that we have to make. It’s about viewing success in terms of little victories, not as a final milestone or arrival to serve up to our inflated egos. Only then will we find that ideas begin to be generated everywhere if we are brave enough to look. To counter the mentality that an inflated ego creates by believing that yesterday is far better than tomorrow, we must use creativity to free ourselves from the shackles of yesterday. Question past success and question future success. This keeps the ego in balance and prevents it from becoming inflated.



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