FINDING AND UNLOCKING CREATIVE GENIUS FROM “ATOMIC HABITS”

Review of Atomic Habits by Pilgrim Soul

James Clear is an entrepreneur, photographer and author. He wrote the book Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones and created the Habits Academy, a training platform for people and companies that are interested in building good habits in life and work.

In Clear’s website post titled, “Creativity: How to Unlock Your Hidden Creative Genius,” he pulls together his most essential information about creativity.

DEFINING CREATIVITY

Clear starts by defining what the creative process is. He says it’s “the act of making new connections between old ideas or recognizing relationships between concepts.” Thinking creatively doesn’t mean we have to start with nothing and make something. Instead, we take building blocks that we already have and construct them in an original way.

THE CREATIVE PROCESS

Although each creative idea should be different from the next, the process by which we get to a creative idea is generally the same. Clear cites James Webb Young, an advertising executive who…