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                   %ENCOURAGING CREATIVE CONFIDENCE 860908

     To  encourage creative confidence in young people  we
need  to  help  them  feel free to  confide  with  courage
regarding that which  is most uniquely their own,   rather
than   to   encourage  them  to  affirm   conventionality.
Creativity comes from  new  combinations.    This  entails
sharing,  generosity,  giving, receiving, accepting.  This
is    inhibited   by   tendencies   toward    selfishness,
possessiveness, systematic control, conformity, convergent
thought and behavior.   Creativity is promoted by open and
honest dialogue,  not by efforts to be "right". Confidence
comes  best  in  contexts in which there  is  security  in
confiding when one is vulnerable,  not  in contexts  where
one has superior defenses.  Creativity flows from bringing
together   in   a  union  that  which  is   different   in
complementary  ways,   not form collecting into  separated
locations that which is alike, as in sorting into piles of
all-of-a-kind.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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