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What values drive Cultural Creatives?
Okay to identify as a Spiritual Creative person too
The number one value of a cultural creative is interest in innovating and willingness to do new experiments.
Maybe we better define “innovation”: “to introduce something new; changes in anything established”.
We are NOT talking about Dr. Frankenstein innovation, not innovation for the sake of new products, new profits, new public prestige. Cultural Creatives are invested in healthy values for both process and outcome. Neither Dr. Frankenstein nor Dr. Jekyll invested thought into the ramifications and possible consequences of their prideful experiments. CCs find meaning, purpose, energy and growth in creations aligned with healthy human values.
Cultural Creatives often enjoy the process of creating itself. Picasso was this way; he lived to create new ways of viewing.
In 1962 Everett Rogers described how popular ideas and innovations sweep through societies. His classic work, “Diffusion of Innovations“, Free Press (division of Simon and Shuster) is in its fourth edition. Rogers showed on a bell curve of demographics, the left trailing edge, in every culture, inevitably a small number of people enjoy innovating. This includes artists and wriers yet is not limited to these. Homeschooling mothers…
