Chapter 10: Tenacious Creativity

Today I am focusing on chapter two, whose strategy is "Never give up-- there's always another move," which means that we are done with the first part of the book. Hurray! In this chapter, the author writes about the problems occurred during the expenditure, and how Shackleton and his crews solved them by being creative.

I like the story about Shackleton, Crean and Worsley "shooting down the side of an almost precipitous mountain at nearly a mile a minute" (147). This seemed a little crazy for me, even though this was the only hope for the trio to rescue their fellows, considering the severe situation where they would have frozen to death.

Reading this chapter, I was marveled at the crews creativeness. I sometimes feel that I am lacking creativity, and this is  why I always respect people who offered creative solutions/opinions in wherever situations (group discussion etc). However, I personally believe that we are all born with creativity, and small children are all wonderful inventors.

Then why do I sometimes feel that I am lacking it? Because of the education? Hmm... I don't think so...

I watched a video which is dealing with creativity: "Do schools kill creativity". In this video, the speaker said the same thing as the author of Leading at the Edge. Since this is too long(about 20min,) I'll write about it. He said, "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original." Similary, Perkins says "rather than expecting things to go right, successful leaders under these conditions should be prepared for things to go wrong." (148)

The speaker follows, "What we do know is the kids would take the chance. If they don't know they'll go." I try not to be too afraid of making mistakes and not to decide easier and safer ways! I'll take a chance!