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Kathryn Cramer:
The first thought, the best innovation born out of a creative moment, well sometimes.

Kathryn Cramer, author of the book, Change The Way You See Everything Through Asset Based Thinking says more often than not success comes from imitation.

And yet we were all trained never to look on anybody else's paper-never to try to find our answers through somebody else because that would be "cheating". And of course that has its place, but as adults when somebody else knows how to do something that we would like to incorporate into our repertoire, finding that person observing them closely, asking them, " how do you do that?" And then incorporating the lessons accelerates our progress.

When you think about it you've learned a lot of things by imitating other people.

It's really how we learn language, it's how we learn to walk, it's how we get civilized at the breakfast table. And we forget to apply that asset-based approach when we're learning a more advanced skill.

Kathryn says imitating others is not stealing ideas.

You're uniqueness will bring the fresh creative aspect that you seek. And you'll do yourself a big favor by having those creative moments a lot more often.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.