Week 1 Post 1 - Creativity and Entrepreneurship

Henry Romain

Week 1 Post 1

What is  after all?

   - Entrepreneurship tends to not just be driven by a desire to generate wealth, but also from the intense need, as a creative person, to bring an idea to life. 

   - Entrepreneurship is a middle man between creative people and what they create.

   - Entrepreneurship is often not planned, and changes courses drastically during the process.

   - Seeing opportunity where others see challenges.

   - Entrepreneurship is rebelling against what something wrong in the world by your own creative means. 

   - "Putting your own little dent on the universe"

Why musicians are natural entrepreneurs

   - Like musicians, entrepreneurs must observe their environment and learn from others before starting.

   - Musicians and entrepreneurs both collaborate with others like them to create a product.

   - Failure is part of the process. Use failures to achieve progress by discovering why you failed and what "not failing" looks like.

   - Improvisation 

   - Constant renewal: applying the perspective of a newborn when faced with challenges to garden something new that others would not think of. 

5 Skills

   - Experimenting: Pioneering new ways of using things, often to create something new or present a solution for challenge. Learning by making the product rather than the product itself.

   - Networking: Developing relationships and friendships with other creatives in your field. Collaborating with others to create projects that are unique.

   - Questioning: What happens if I do it like this? Just because something is done one way, it does not mean that is has to be done that way.

   - Associating: Creating things by combining multiple existing things together.

   - Observation: Being influenced by your environment or what is happening in society.

Learning to observe/seeing what others don't

   - Responding to changes in what is happening around you by creating.

   - Thinking about what you have observed while you are creating.

   - Turn around and observe what you would normally dismiss.