Being Surprised - The Best of the Winner's Circle Network with Lou Tice - 4/17/12

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The Best of the Winner's Circle Network with Lou Tice - 4/17/12 - "Being Surprised" Can you be very cool and sophisticated and also highly creative at the same time? I am not so sure it is possible. Do you know anyone who is too sophisticated, too cool to ever be surprised? If so, don't be envious. The experience of surprise is also a sign of our readiness to grow. Amazement and wonder are clear signals that our self-concept and our concepts of the world and other people, are flexible and open to being reshaped. What's more, it takes

commitment and the ability to focus to allow us the experience of surprise. Now, the so-called cool and sophisticated person has a hard time being surprised. He guards against anything that even suggests surprise, because he needs to believe that he has everything figured out. But what he's really done is build a wall around his creative reservoir with his veneer of sophistication. It is people like this who are most unwilling to commit themselves to anything, least of all an ideal, and certainly not the development of their own creativity. Creativity must be encouraged and nurtured if you want to grow as a person. You must be willing to seek out and develop that which is new in yourself. At the same time, you are letting go of old habits, beliefs and expectations that are no longer useful - and could easily be holding you back from true success. That's creativity in action, and in the long run, it's far more important than being

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