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Work and creativity. . .

As a creative person, you've been given the ability to build things from nothing by way of hard work over long periods of time. Creation is a deeply personal and rewarding activity, which means that your work should also be deeply personal and rewarding. If it's not, then something is amiss.

Creation is entirely dependent on ownership.Ownership not as a percentage of equity, but as a measure of your ability to change things for the better. To build and grow and fail and learn. This is no small thing. Creativity is the manifestation of lateral thinking, and without tangible results, it becomes stunted. We have to see the fruits of our labors, good or bad, or there's no motivation to proceed, nothing to learn from to inform the next decision. States of approval and decisions-by-committee and constant compromises are third-party interruptions of an internal dialog that needs to come to its own conclusions.

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Monster.com: "Your Calling is Calling" Ad

Lots of ads are creative. Some are really creative. This one from Monster is rare, because it's not only extremely original and creative but also thought-provoking and inspiring. In some ways it reminds me of that old Think Different ad from Apple because it uses aspiration to forge such a powerful emotional response in such a short time. 


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