Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast and this episode is part of our Squiggly Skills Sprint series where we've recorded 20 episodes. Each of them are less than seven minutes long to help you build some career development momentum. In each episode, Sarah and I are going to talk about a squiggly skill, what it is and why it matters.

We're going to share an idea for action from each of us, give you a go-to guru and a podcast

episode so that you can listen and learn a bit more. And we really, really want you to turn

this squiggly skills sprint into your own learning streak. And for anyone who lets us know

how they're getting on and who

completes the 20 day streak, we can't prove that, so we trust you. But if you tag us that you've

done the sprint, you've completed the streak, then what we will do is we'll get in touch with you

and we will invite you to a free five skills to succeed virtual workshop that Sarah and I are going

to be running in September so we can help you dive even deeper into the world of squiggly careers. All you've got to do is tag at Amazing

If in any of your social posts and then we'll be in touch. In this skills sprint, we're

talking about creativity and everyone's creative, but sometimes it shows up in different ways

and I think we often give ourselves a really hard time about whether we are creative or not, because we point to things that feel very creative, like somebody who can draw or someone who's an incredible writer.

We're like, well, they're really creative.

And then almost by default, I think then I'm not.

And it's one of those where I think we fall

into that comparison trap of like looking at other people around us or maybe we just sort of

limit ourselves, I think too soon and too quickly. But being creative is so important. It's one of

the skills that is the least likely to be replaced by AI. It's number two in the top 10 skills needed in

2023, according to the World Economic Forum, and the one that is classified as being most on

the rise in terms of what organizations are looking for. And I think when organizations say they

want people to be creative, you know, what they're talking about is we want people to think creatively about problem solving, about spotting

opportunities, about doing things differently, about how we navigate change. And I think one of

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