10 habits of successful creative people: how to change your mind and build creative confidence

10habits ofsuccessfulcreativepeopleby Yuan WangCreative Director, Yump

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1You arewhat you thinkyou are.

AndyWarhol

“How can you call this art?” they say.“You can’t paint as well as what’s his name…and your model isn’t as pretty to begin with.”

Andy WarholLeading figure of 1950s Pop Art

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for 1963’s Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”Sylvia Plath

2Question everything, everywhere, forever.

CharlesDarwin

Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you.And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.Steve Jobs

3If you can’tfind a way,make one.

ClaudeMonet

After being repeatedly rejected by France’s official art show, the Salon de Paris, the Impressionists staged the first of their own exhibitions in 1874. Despite early public ridicule, their style was eventually adopted by mainstream Salon art by the 1890s.

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4Don’t leave ideas in your head.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci perfected the art of sketching in the 15th century.His sketchbooks contained brilliant inventions, ideas and discoveries.

From ideas to prototypes, sketch them all out.

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5Createyour environment.

PabloPicasso

“The whole studio seemed to be bristling with Picasso’s. All the bits of wood and frames had become like his pictures.”Vanessa Bell after visiting Picasso’s studio in 1914

This is the house used by Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook team in the summer of 2004.

You don’t need expensive fitouts to make your environment creative and stimulating for innovative thinking.

6Join forcesand be a force.

Lennon & McCartney

Successfulpartnerships

Larry Page + Sergey BrinPierre Omidyar + Jeffrey Skoll

Ben Cohen + Jerry Greenfield

Evan Willams + Biz Stone Steve Jobs + Steve Wozniak

John Lennon + Paul McCartney

7 BeAUDACIOUS.

RuslanKogan

Only a big, crazy idea can shatter the status quo.The best businesses do things in a way that no one has ever done before.Ruslan Kogan,Founder of Kogan.com

8Creat chancebecausechance creates.

Thingsdiscoveredby chance

9Simplify,then simplify more.

Steve Jobs

That’s been one of my mantras —focus and simplicity.Simple can be harder than complex.You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.Steve Jobs

10Make it happen.

It’s notabout ideas.It’s aboutmaking ideas happen.Scott Belsky,Co-founder of Behance

Thinking big isan absolute waste of time if you’re not going to execute on your ideas.Ruslan Kogan,Founder of Kogan.com

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