Comments on: Approach Life as a Learning Experience, and Apply the Knowledge to Your Online Business http://www.sew-wrc.com/idea-motivator/2006/11/27/approaching-life-as-a-learning-experience-and-applying-the-knowledge-to-your-online-business/ Where Creativity Explodes into Content and Link Popularity Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:44:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Kristen Owen http://www.sew-wrc.com/idea-motivator/2006/11/27/approaching-life-as-a-learning-experience-and-applying-the-knowledge-to-your-online-business/#comment-384 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:27:31 +0000 http://www.sew-wrc.com/idea-motivator/2006/11/27/approaching-life-as-a-learning-experience-and-applying-the-knowledge-to-your-online-business/#comment-384 True that life experiences can translate well into business practice, I think the problem lies in the active ways one needs to view the world rather than glaze over the obvious, the trivial, or the simply "normal". We are so programmed to ignore our surroundings it's sometimes more difficult to see that building or billboard you pass daily to work rather than see it as an inspiration or useful object. If we could somehow make ourselves see all the things we ignore daily then apply them to our businesses and creativity more people would have an easier time being creative rather than feeling stumped by the beauty that lies around us. True that life experiences can translate well into business practice, I think the problem lies in the active ways one needs to view the world rather than glaze over the obvious, the trivial, or the simply “normal”. We are so programmed to ignore our surroundings it’s sometimes more difficult to see that building or billboard you pass daily to work rather than see it as an inspiration or useful object.

If we could somehow make ourselves see all the things we ignore daily then apply them to our businesses and creativity more people would have an easier time being creative rather than feeling stumped by the beauty that lies around us.

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