This week, the CE is celebrating World Creativity and Innovation Week. We’re highlighting all kinds of campus events and things to see with our map of Campus Creativity Hotspots. Check out things to do, see, make, and learn! We’re also gettin’ all kinds of creativity and innovation up in the blog. Each day this week, we’ll post about five key facets of creativity and innovation: inspiration, curiosity, passion, dedication, and reflection. Up today: reflection.
Project after project, I’ve realized that reflection is one of the most important aspects of the creative process. It’s so crucial because most people forget about it. There is a tendency to put one’s all into a project and then, once it’s over, sleep for a bit and move onto the next thing.
It’s vital that reflection is a key part of that transition time between projects. It’s a time to contemplate what went well and what didn’t and why those things panned out the way they did. If we don’t give ourselves this time, we’re doomed to make the same mistakes over and over again. We’re also doomed to be stagnant. Innovation can only come from building upon the past. If you’re not paying attention to the past there’s no chance of innovation at all.