HotScarves or Buffoonery?

Years ago, after a back oper­a­tion that stopped me work­ing part-​time as a cos­tume set super­vi­sor, I started a lit­tle busi­ness called HotScarves. I’d send you to the web­site, but… it ran away to the outer world of lost web­sites. I had worked hard on my cre­ation, a heated fleece scarf, but after many scarves my energy was wan­ing and my “con­vic­tion” was dropping.

Teach­ing Buf­foon­ery at Van­cou­ver Film School

I was doing it for the wrong rea­sons. Money. And, that’s not enough.

I had a lit­tle chat with myself, and dug deeper into my soul. I returned to my love of act­ing, of direct­ing and designed the work­shop I now offer. Buf­foon­ery Workshops.

Okay.. that’s the reader’s digest ver­sion, but that’s all you need to know, for now. What is impor­tant here is that my con­vic­tion for my ser­vice is a hun­dred fold more than my cozy fleece. I’m excited, pas­sion­ate, and I love stir­ring up the Buf­foon­ery in every one. It’s a free­ing activ­ity, and even soul­ful. My atti­tude and stay­ing power is strong, and I believe it’s all about that word in the fol­low­ing bril­liant arti­cle: Con​vic​tion​.It is the dri­ving force to our creativity.

Is your con­vic­tion strong in your work­ing life? And, what is it?

Why con­vic­tion dri­ves inno­va­tion more than creativity

By Doreen Lorenzo, pres­i­dent, frog

In busi­ness cir­cles, “cre­ativ­ity” has become a buzz­word to describe a desired trait among employ­ees. But to inno­vate, con­vic­tion is more important.

FORTUNE — In busi­ness cir­cles, “cre­ativ­ity” has become a buzz­word to describe a desired trait among employ­ees. It’s widely believed that hav­ing cre­ative thinkers on staff will boost over­all team lev­els of inno­va­tion. Yes, cre­ativ­ity can lead to a sur­plus of orig­i­nal ideas. But when it comes time to sell those con­cepts inter­nally, and then later take those ideas to mar­ket, cre­ativ­ity is not enough. More impor­tant is conviction.

Look at the most-​admired busi­ness lead­ers today. They tend to resist com­pro­mises, even when faced with wide­spread skep­ti­cism or even com­plaints from cus­tomers. Mark Zucker­berg, Facebook’s young founder, is known for the exact­ness of his vision, which dri­ves each design or soft­ware tweak of the social net­work­ing soft­ware that he cre­ated, despite the now-​requisite uproar each change incites among Facebook’s 750 million-​plus users (whose own con­vic­tions, it should be noted, help drive sub­se­quent iter­a­tions and pri­vacy poli­cies of Facebook).

Read the rest of the arti­cle by Doreen Lorenzo at CNN.Fortune