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    What are some of the statements or phrases you say that may be shutting down your child’s creativity or stifling your co-workers’ creativity?
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    Take a few minutes and think about the potential impact of Elizabeth Gilbert’s suggestion to reframe your creative ability as being on loan to you for your use and to then be passed on. Does this free you up to be less anxious about your creative potential?
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    What are some small or large projects or opportunities in your life right now that you know will benefit by applying your creativity to them?
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CHAPTER 3

    YOU ARE CREATIVE!
    Everyone is born creative; everyone is given
a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then
when you hit puberty they take the crayons
away and replace them with dry, uninspiring
books on algebra, history, etc. Being
suddenly hit years later with the “creative
bug” is just a wee voice telling you, “I’d like
my crayons back, please.”
    â€”H UGH M AC L EOD , cartoonist, author of
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to
Creativity
    YES you are creative, and you are not alone. LinkedIn, with more than 187 million members in December 2012, announced their Top Ten Most Overused Profile Terms for 2012, and “creative” is number one for the third year in a row (United States, Sweden, Singapore, New Zealand, Netherlands, Germany, Canada, and Australia). I recently entered a search for “creative” in LinkedIn, and worldwide I got 3,183,243 profile search results with 1,785,123 of these in the United States! Don’t be bashful, claim your creativity.We have helped lots of people master their use of LinkedIn—check out www.linkedlaunchpad.com for great free training.
    So repeat after us: “I am creative. I am creative.”—now click your heels together. We want to help you reconnect to your creativity in all aspects of your life. You are creative, you simply may not think you’re creative or realize how creative you are. In this chapter, we are going to continue exploring the reasons you may believe you are not creative and help you understand what you can do to be