Various studies of highly successful, famous and creative people have discovered one common trait: they tend to have...

Mentors, Role Models, Guides, Teachers

This week take some time each day to recall, recognize and think about your Mentors, Role Models, Guides, Teachers and how they have and may still influence and teach you to become more creative.

Each day ask yourself the following questions related to the specific list of 6 to 12 different Mentors, Role Models, Guides, Teachers from your life so far.

1. What were/are their personal creative strengths, traits, characteristics? 2. Where did/do they focus their creative strengths? 3. How do they share their creative strengths? 4. Which of these creative strengths already exist in me? 5. Which of these creative strengths would I like to develop in me? 6. What might I do or do I need to do to begin to develop these creative strengths in me?

Each day generate a list of 6 to 12 separate creative people.

MONDAY Famous creative people

TUESDAY Creative fictional characters

WEDNESDAY Creative relatives

THURSDAY Creative friends

FRIDAY Creative people you work with or go to school with

On Monday my list would probably consist of...

Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)
Eero Saarinen (architect)
Alvar Aalto (architect)
Gunnar Birkerts (architect)
Saul Bass (graphic designer)
Bob Dylan (singer, song writer)
Edgar Allan Poe (writer)
Bill Waterson (cartoonist-Calvin & Hobbes)
Charles Schultz (cartoonist)
Jim Unger (cartoonist)
Jonathon Winters (comic/actor)
Robin Williams (comic/actor)

Have fun this week and let your Mentors, Role Models, Guides, Teachers help you develop a plan to help you develop your creativeness further.

© 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 Robert Alan Black, Ph.D. CSP