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Optimism and Reality

Optimism is necessary if we want to accomplish much in life.

But optimism must not be intentionally blind, or deaf, or muted, it must acknowledge and then appropriately react to REALITY and TRUTH.

It occurred to me that the most optimistic message humanity has ever heard is the great Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. The one that is restoring humanity back to God. I believe that this gospel is being restored today within the body of Christ.

This Gospel when fully communicated acknowledges and explains evil principalities and powers in high places (seems so negative). It acknowledges suffering and trouble for the follower of Christ (seems so negative). It places God’s will above our own wills which can be quite painful (seems so negative).

Spiritual reality has a negative side that we should acknowledge and understand and share.

Through Eyeballs and Faces

I’ve been discouraged and disillusioned recently. It’s a crushing feeling of loss over my inability. And an anxious looking for something within Christians that I am not finding …regularly.

But it’s not totally true, I do find Jesus in friends and family. Both near and far, and I’m greatly appreciative for that. but I want him more, I want him daily not monthly, not through podcasts and Facebook but through eyeballs and faces.

I think the whole world longs for that, but most of us don’t realize it …yet.

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.” – ‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:18-19‬

This verse sums up how I often feel. “Anxious longing” for the sons and daughters of God to be revealed. This does not mean revealed in a “who are the Christians” way. But in “an outshining of Jesus Christ from a person or group” way. To look at a group or a person and see Jesus Christ formed in them, all of them together!!!, not just a hero on stage. I’ve seen that, and I’ve experienced that in a small way and it is the best thing going on this planet.

Three Traits of Creative People

I’ve observed in successful scientists, in myself and in highly productive authors, I’m talking about the type of authors who have consistently produced high quality books for years. Anyone can become more creative by making sure they possess the following three traits.

    1. A master of knowledge, in general the more knowledge the better. It is easier to be creative, to invent and to build processes around subjects we have a lot of knowledge in, knowledge; whether gained by experience or by formal education can be a tremendous boost to human creativity. This mastery of knowledge makes humans unique, the ability to store and re-use knowledge gives us the unique ability to be creative and I belive is a clue as to the meaning of human life
    2. Humility is often in opposition to the mastery of knowledge in most people and therefore is difficult to maintain. Those who lack humility often allow their intelligence to take them into a very pessimistic place. They assume they know more than they do and overtime this is a major creativity destroyer. I’ve seen this in action with dozens of brilliant scientists and academics.       Our lack of humility makes our great intelligence almost useless, this is seen in refusing to collaborate and making bad assumptions about what we think we know.
    1. An optimistic mindset is seen in trying new things and in acknowledging we don’t know everything. Learning can happen by experience faster and often more thoroughly then by theorizing. Optimism creates the environment for the mastery of more learning, more knowledge and therefore more creativity.

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If you want to be more creative or make the teams you manage more creative start first with these three traits. Here is a great example of scientist and engineer creativity and innovation at Corning Inc.

What other traits have you observed in highly creative people?

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