Creativity and Ivan Lasater

A meditation on creativity with a Grand County Local. Moab, Utah resident up and coming oil executive, Ivan Lasater

Ivan Lasater is an Executive in the Oil and Gas Industry. He lives in Moab, Utah and works as an Oil and Gas Production Recovery Specialist. His job requires the ability to creatively integrate systems and hardware that increase the amount of production through recovering potentially valuable byproducts and increasing profits. Can you imagine the amount of creativity this takes? The industry that Ivan works in is one of the most competitive and regulated industries in the world. It takes a human being, making creative and thoughtful decisions to stand out in a field of cutting edge automation and technology.

According to the definition, creativity is the means by which people produce significant ideas and solve problems which are unique, critical, and substantial. Ivan has perfectly placed himself in this position and is consistently tapping into his gift for creativity to contribute valuable solutions. His industry and the people of the world rely on his solutions. The Oil and Gas Industry relies on him for greater profitability and the people of the world rely on Ivan for a cleaner and more efficient way of dealing with waist and emission.

With the advance of automated industry, it’s frightening to think that we can produce more, waist less, and regulate more efficiently with machines that run around the clock than we can with men who punch a clock. Men like Ivan don’t frighten easily, however. They see this increased competition in his field as an opportunity to prove that no amount of automated systems working in conjunction with one another can compensate for the creativity required to come up with new and original ideas. Computers don’t invent ideas, they just make it easier for us to develop and integrate them.

So what does it take to be creative? Does it require some kind of genius? Does it require extensive training? What about schooling? Oddly enough, studies have revealed that creativity is linked more closely with intuitive ability than it is with ability to learn. Doctor Frank X Barron, a renowned psychologist and professor at the University of California specializing in the study of creativity, once described a creative person as being “Both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner than the average person.” Ivan would agree. There really needs to be an element of uniqueness to qualify as creative.

Ivan explained that although expertise doesn’t dictate the degree to which a person is capable of being creative, expertise is a characteristic of creative people. “It helps to know a little about what your trying to create.” Ivan says. “I wouldn’t listen to a chef tell me how to increase oil production. Well, not at first.”

Another characteristic of creative people is open mindedness. Open minded people are naturally curious and tend to question other people’s logic. To say that Ivan Lasater is open minded would be correct. Open mindedness has been an essential key to his learning experience within the Industry. Listening to the ideas of others within his network has given him the insight he needed to develop the management systems that have made Ivan a trusted executive in Oil and Gas.

The greatest characteristic that would apply to Ivan’s creativity is his drive. His persistence and hard work have set him apart as a man to be sought. Ivan is usually working, even when he’s not….officially. He spends off time solving problems and formulating plans. It’s of no consequence to him because he’s naturally driven to man the helm.

What is the future of creativity in Industry? A promising one to say the least. We still havn’t invented a machine that can be creative for us.

Ivan Lasater is the Owner/CEO/Founder of ICL Enterprises. He resides in Moab, UT.