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Startups<\/a> are like roller-coasters.<\/p>\n

If you run or work at a startup, you experience many highs and lows and you can\u2019t always anticipate what\u2019s ahead.<\/p>\n

Education and experience help us to overcome many difficult situations, but education and experience are rarely enough.<\/p>\n

To be successful<\/a>, we also must be creative in the ways we face and overcome problems.<\/p>\n

Why isn\u2019t education and experience enough?<\/p>\n

Startups don\u2019t typically have the same resources, capital<\/a>, or credibility found in established companies.<\/p>\n

This forces entrepreneurs and their startups to think outside of the box and to take actions that are very different than those an established company might take.<\/p>\n

For example, established companies rarely bet their entire company on a single new product, yet startups regularly do this.<\/p>\n

Established companies tweak marketing, product design, sales, and many other processes in incremental ways. Many established companies talk about innovation, but few actually understand how to innovate and even fewer are innovative.<\/p>\n

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Psychology professor Thomas B. Ward found that a majority of an entrepreneur\u2019s creativity is invested in solving paradoxes. The Routlegde Companion to Creativity<\/a> summarizes one of his findings:<\/p>\n

For example, in introducing a new product in the market, entrepreneurs will have to combine novelty and familiarity, the former for catching attention and the latter to prevent outright rejection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This paradox happens because startups must be able to do many things well, but lack resources. The Routledge Companion to Creativity explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In a physical sense, the most critical of these paradoxes, as apparent from the situation described above, is the mismatch between the requirements and availability of resources. Building a new enterprise and establishing it in the competitive field would need a lot of resources, which the newness and smallness of the enterprise\/entrepreneur prevents them from attracting. In prioritizing the tasks to be performed while implementing their entrepreneurial vision, entrepreneurs have to focus on the critical tasks, but paradoxically have to take care of every routine, in the absence of robust organizational systems and procedures. Such paradoxes can also cloud the mental processes of the entrepreneur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even though entrepreneurs are asked to do the impossible and to disrupt<\/a> our daily lives, they often struggle to find the right way to do this.<\/p>\n

Before you conclude that creativity is only necessary when you\u2019re trying to figure out a new business idea and that education and experience can lead the way afterward, consider the following research study<\/a> published in The Journal of Enterprising Culture. <\/i><\/p>\n

In that study,<\/i> researchers discovered that the creativity linked to innovation (i.e. ideation) directly affects an entrepreneur’s managerial\/leadership skills. In the study, the more innovative a person, the better they were at being a leader<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It turns out that innovative people use that same nexus of creativity to problem solve financial issues or employee conflict and to create a unique company culture. Without these important skills, no company can become sustainable.<\/p>\n

But what happens if you get a creative block? After all, we\u2019re all human and rarely perfect. Do you stop being a good entrepreneur when you\u2019ve misplaced your creativity?<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry – this is a temporary problem.<\/p>\n

According to Good Therapy, creative block<\/a>\u00a0affects a majority of creative people.<\/p>\n

When creative block strikes, truly innovative entrepreneurs push forward and overcome the block. They either know how to harness their energy, refocus, and let their creativity recharge – or they take specific steps in order to return to their creative state.<\/p>\n

Before you conclude that putting your head \u201cin the clouds\u201d is worthless, you should know that scientific research supports this approach.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0study<\/a> on creative cognition revealed that the more distant a creative was from the issue blocking them, the faster and better they solved the problem. The study highlights this idea as \u201ccognitive distance\u201d, which is like mentally walking away from a situation that is at a standstill. The study also examines the idea that within that distance, there is an ability to daydream – what the Psychology Today<\/i> article refers to as \u201chead in the clouds\u201d. Daydreaming allows us to delve deeper into our psyche, and release any mental inhibitions we may have, which are often the cause of the creative block.<\/p>\n

We might not all be MacGyver<\/a>, with superhuman skills to make creative things out of ordinary objects, but we can all leverage creativity to overcome problems that seem insurmountable. Many times, our ability to overcome such problems is the difference between our companies succeeding and failing.<\/p>\n

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