Embracing the Challenge: Building capacity for complexity

Life is challenging. Full stop. This week’s episode we embrace the challenge! We talk about how looking at a problem as a challenge helps to enable a mindset and capacity for better problem solving. Giving ourselves a pause, using language that opens ourselves up to solution-finding and accepting that change is inevitable allows us to leverage our creativity and build our confidence to help solve complex challenges, whether personal or professional.

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Resources from the show:

Dr. Ruth Noller (SUNY Buffalo State) equation for creativity: C = ƒa(K,I,E)

Creativity(C) is a function (ƒ) of your attitude (a) multiplied by knowledge (K), imagination (I) and evaluation (E)

Milkman, K. L., Minson, J. A., & Volpp, K. G. (2014). Holding the Hunger Games Hostage at the Gym: An Evaluation of Temptation Bundling. Management science, 60(2), 283–299. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2013.1784

Thinking Skills: Weaving Creativity: Into Every Strand of your Curriculum by Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Julia Figliotti

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