Embrace Weird
James Victore writes, “the things that made you weird as a kid make you great today.”
What do you think?
When we’re young, we learn and grow through our innate curiosity and pursuing those things that interest us. We don’t think of our childhood interests and pursuits as weird at the time, although, sadly for many there comes a moment when we start to hide some of them.
This book, Feck Perfuction, is all about embracing your creativity, and encouraging people to stop relegating their creative interests to a weekend pursuit, or not at all.
Many of the people, and workplaces, I work with don’t see themselves as creative in the popular use of the term. Creative jobs, and creative industries, seem to be funnelled into a narrow container.
And yet creativity and curiosity and interest and engagement are intertwined. They provide the urge to know and understand, to explore and discover, to solve, to learn, to experiment, to change and fix things. Through curiosity and interest we go deep and wide to engage with ideas and problems and people. Tell me a job and industry that doesn’t need even a tiny bit of that.
Good reasons for reconnecting with our inner weirdness and embracing what makes us different, don’t you think?
Next time you and your team are tackling a challenging scenario, exploring solutions, or new ideas, I wonder how tapping back into those areas of your interest and curiosity might be the “weird” idea or perspective that only you can provide.