Teresa M. Amabile, Ph.D. of Harvard/Brandeis's book GROWING UP CREATIVE attracted my attention this time. Chapter 4 specifically, The Motivation for Creativity.

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction, and challenge of the work itself--not by external pressures.

She then lists four main aspects of intrinsic motivation for creativity

1. love/obsession
2. dedication
3. combination of work and play
4. concentration on the activity itself

Now I paraphrase and project to you and I

The greatest challenge in nurturing creativity is finding and developing "Creativity Intersection-- the area where (our) talents, skills, and interest overlap".

This challenge asks you to examine your life for "Creativity Intersections"

When have your talents, skills and interests overlapped? When have you loved or been obsessed, dedicated, worked and played and concentrated on an activity itself?