Reclaiming Your Creativity–No Matter Your Role with Tania Katan

Everyone has creative ability. Boost yours by giving yourself permission to take risks.

Creativity involves the ability to generate unexpected ideas and express them without shame or fear of making mistakes. Everyone is naturally creative, but many people lose touch with their creativity as they become adults and feel pressured to conform to the status quo. But the ability never entirely disappears. Creativity is a birthright, and you can reclaim it by choosing to practice and cultivate it again.

Give yourself permission to trust your impulses and take creative risks. You can begin to open yourself gently to creative possibilities by asking the question, “What if?” Often, imposing constraints on a situation can spur innovative thinking. For example, when artist Meg Duguid wanted to open a gallery in Chicago, financial limitations forced her to think creatively. The result was Clutch Gallery, a tiny gallery that exists within a clutch purse, where she displays rotating exhibitions of miniature artworks...