Allowing Ideas to Enter Your Mind
Our Western culture is busy. In fact, corporate America has mistaken busyness with business. With an onslaught of e-mails, text messages, phone calls and meetings, there’s no shortage of busyness. There is always something to do.
Little of our daily communication supports the creative process, which tends to favor allowing over doing. You’ve probably experienced a great idea popping into mind as you’ve aimlessly walked through the woods, showered or cruised the highway. It’s the power of allowing at work.
Consider giving your employees space to wander, play and create—even on non-work-related activities. Reverie and play are often the precursor to breakthrough ideas.
Google engineers, for example, spend 20 percent of their time working on whatever they want. Google trusts their talented employees to build useful and innovative things—some of which will become new projects in Google Labs.
The lesson: Sometimes it’s best to focus on allowing instead of just doing.
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