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3. Creative Thinking Draws People to You and Your Ideas
Creativity is intelligence having fun. People admire intelligence, and they are
always attracted to fun—so the combination is fantastic. If anyone could be said
to have fun with his intelligence, it was Leonardo da Vinci. The diversity of his
ideas and expertise staggers the mind. He was a painter, architect, sculptor,
anatomist, musician, inventor, and engineer. The term 
Renaissance man 
was
coined because of him.
Just as people were drawn to Da Vinci and his ideas during the Renaissance,
they are drawn to creative people today. If you cultivate creativity, you will
become more attractive to other people, and they will be drawn to you.

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4. Creative Thinking Helps You Learn More
Author and creativity expert Ernie Zelinski says, “Creativity is the joy of not
knowing it all. The joy of not knowing it all refers to the realization that we
seldom if ever have all the answers; we always have the ability to generate more
solutions to just about any problem. Being creative is being able to see or
imagine a great deal of opportunity to life’s problems. Creativity is having
options.” 
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It almost seems too obvious to say, but if you are always actively seeking new
ideas, you will learn. Creativity is teachability. It’s seeing more solutions than
problems. And the greater the quantity of thoughts, the greater the chance for
learning something new.

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5. Creative Thinking Challenges the Status Quo
If you desire to improve your world—or even your own situation—then
creativity will help you. The status quo and creativity are incompatible.
Creativity and innovation always walk hand in hand.

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