Creativity vis-a-vis Space-time Oasis

Some of my takeaways from ‘John Cleese on the Five Factors to make your Life more creative’ , Popova (2018), are creating your own personal space time. This idea of personal space time resonates with the daily stressful and pressured life of morning to evening job and meeting the corporate deadlines. Our life is mostly bound by the tight schedule of reporting and getting things done on time. It is so much so that we forget to realize our own personal space time. Do we take a moment to watch our breath in and out? Owing to this daily schedule of life, we forget to reflect on our innate quality and time. We forget to think for ourselves and the surroundings around us. We forget to think what society is lacking. Therefore, having personal space time quite often helps to think for the society and environment we are living. It helps us to be creative to think for the social and marketing problems that we are facing at the moment.

I believe that workplace should be designed in such a way that there is personal space time for every employee to reflect on their own life and social and marketing problems. It is not about meeting the deadline and getting things done. It is not about pushing the employees hard to work to achieve their organizational goal. It is not about competition and creating the pressured environment, it is more about creating the comfortable environment for the employees to work and think about the problems in different perspective.

For me, relaxed environment with open mode helps me to think creatively. A sense humour is also another aspect that adds me to open mode where I can start thinking creative ideas.