This semester, I’m in a class called “Leadership for Creative Problem Solving,” with the ever-impressive Mary John O’Hair leading our group. We’ve talked a lot about what it means to be creative, specifically in the land of educational leadership, but my conversations always come back around to finding ways to be creative and flexing those muscles.
In my attempts to follow Austin Kleon’s advice and show my work, in our final discussion board post–something else I’ve tried to spice up this semester because oh my god can discussion boards be an absolute pain in the you know what and I wouldn’t wish them on my worst enemy but understand why we have to do them–we were asked to share an article or video we found in our studies on creativity and leadership.
Like the good oversharer and curator that I am, I linked to this blog, specifically to my tags on creativity, leadership, and creative leadership.
It’s not a great usage case for setting up your own public commonplace book, but it works.
One of my peers, an excellent educator and union leader, made a comment about not knowing how I do it all.
I don’t know either, I just do it. And I think that’s the key.
Creativity is an act of repetition and drudgery. Rarely, if ever, do the clouds of your mind part, allowing rays of…
