Balance and Creativity Go Hand-in-Hand

Living a balanced life will help you achieve the highest level of creativity, both in your career and in your personal life. Finding balance is challenging, but the alternative - low creativity, eventual burnout - is a more devastating option. Here are two examples to help you on your journey:

"The work we love can morph from blessing to curse if it exists without balance. If you love your work, congratulations. But simultaneous with that love, make sure you also love golf or tennis or – and this is big one – your child’s ball game, or whatever can become your work’s counterweight to balance the scales of your life."

Jim Blasingame
Small Business Advocate column, Commercial Appeal, Oct. 13, 2008

"A creative mind is fresh and flexible and is better equipped to face and tackle challenges. Music increases one’s focus and can enhance mind power. A mind less stressed and sharp, at the same time tranquil and fresh, can solve problems and find quick solutions. A person exposed to arts unconsciously imbibes humane qualities like compassion and empathy."

Seetha Rajan
Accomplished musician speaking at Indian School of Business
September 2008

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