Creative Thinking - Earl Nightingale

I just dug out an old CD - a recording from Earl Nightingale that is probably 50 years old and as relevant today as it ever was. Earl discusses the characteristics of highly creative people: Socrates, da Vinci, Einstein, Shakespeare, etc. He lists 25 characteristics, suggests you write one each on a card, arrange them in order from weakest to strongest, and for the next 25 weeks you focus on one characteristic for an entire week; starting with the weakest one for you. Cool exercise - anyone else willing to play?

1. Drive
2. Courage
3. Goals
4. Knowledge (a thirst for more)
5. Good health (physical and mental)
6. Honesty - integrity
7. Optimism
8. Judgment - gathering facts first and understanding them
9. Enthusiasm
10. Chance taker
11. Dynamic - energetic
12. Enterprising - opportunity seeker
13. Persuasive
14. Outgoing
15. Good communicator - verbally skilled
16. Perceptive
17. Patient with others - impatient with self
18. Adaptable
19. Perfection - seeking highest quality from self
20. Sense of humor
21. Versatile
22. Curious
23. Individualistic - do it their own way
24. Realist/Idealist - grounded in reality - driven by ideals
25. Imaginative

In 25 weeks we will each be 25 weeks older. We can be just 25 weeks older or we can be 25 weeks older and a little better and wiser...