Imagination And Opportunity Go Together

It’s a relationship we often miss

Photo by Tom Chrostek

Creative Opportunists

We tend to think of opportunistic people as not particularly creative. It is a stereotype that we can’t do much against, and a simple enough image: a person without ideas who waits for the chance to come to them so they can pounce on it. I don’t think this is how it works. On the contrary, most opportunists have been rather inventive folk in my experience.

Above And Below the Mundane

For some reason, this is a connection we don’t often make. Instead, most people think of creatives as flimsy daydreamers who hardly have a grip on reality. Worse still, creatives often consider themselves to be above or below (depending on their self-esteem) the banality of opportunity. Indeed, I have firsthand experienced how my imagination has seemed to switch off when dealing with the apparently mundane. All those ideas we can transform into writing or music or pottery or painting seem to hiss at and scurry away from application submissions and marketing campaigns. These conditions can brew the perfect storm for exceptionally talented people to miss out on extraordinarily beneficial opportunities.

A Close Relationship