Conclusion

Our future may be as simple as our own ability to be disruptive, creative, and persistent; not to allow failure to define us, but define ourselves by our ability to shift our life path and paradigm through a heightened creativity. Creative economies form organically and often with a disruptive leader who is self-directed and sees a need in the community. They form groups who become disruptors themselves and they work together to ignite the creative economy in their area. They find a way, when others tend to give up, to succeed. In the process, they create a sense of place. This is being done all across America and globally. This chapter explores this.