Creativity is important. In our personal lives as well as business. Creative juices are sustenance for our innovation output. Why then do we treat it as if it were an infinite resource that can be tapped at will.
Creativity depletion deniers will say there is no limit to our capacity to be creative. But it is the possibilities that are limitless, not our capacity to be creative.
You can fill a glass only so much. What overflows is not necessarily of the same quality.
The antidote is time out – OuterVentures
Time out from the daily grind, from the incessant, plodding monotony.
Time out and immersion in different cultures, experiences, environments.
I am extremely fortunate to be able to enjoy the possibilities. I have just come back from a vacation. I regularly get out for hikes and travel frequently (although less so of late for obvious reasons). I had forgotten how beneficial this is.
My latest OuterVenture has taken my wife and I to Cape Town for the last two weeks.
What an amazing, vibrant and richly cultured city. Full of entrepreneurs and innovators making the most of sometimes challenging circumstances. What beautiful landscapes too. Such refreshing experiences overall.
This site is all about InnerVentures – an inward looking pursuit most times.
As you may have gathered, OuterVentures is the opposite.
As much as it is important to spend time investigating inwardly, it is equally important to lift our gaze from our navels. As Marcus Aurelius, the renowned Roman philosopher famously exhorted, stop thinking and act!
Anyway, some of the best snaps from my recent holiday below. Next is a 7 day hike in Scotland on the West Highland Way.
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