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5 • Permission to Develop

The recognition of autonomy immediately brings into im­portance the creator's willingness to give his creation the freedom to develop itself. It means knowing when the creative process is complete. In the case of a machine, it may still be necessary to decide whether a bushing should be of brass or bronze, but you know a bushing of a certain size, shape, and general composition is called for. In the case of a management action, you may still have to decide whether Tom Jones or Ed Smith is the man to implement it, but at least you know what "it" is going to be.

The development may also be negative. When this happens, the creator will immediately drop it and start over again, usually in a new direction. But the creative thinker should realize when his creation is complete, when he can put it into use, or turn it over to someone else to use—even if it still needs some refinement.

Now in spite of all these steps, processes, methods, and pro­cedures, the nature of a creative person is essentially simple. The first and most basic characteristic is the love of his work and his devotion to it. The second is that he takes a mature approach to problems. He is extraordinarily aware of people, of surroundings, of situations, of "things," and the problems they cause. He will usually approach all these with humor and trust and confidence. He is flexible in his thinking, and ready and willing to try new things. He is always looking, and has confidence in his own re­sources and knowledge to feel that what he finds, while it may be bad when he finds it, can always be set to rights and be made good.

And the creative mind believes that "the concept paves the way for the fact." What he can imagine should be so, can be made so.

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