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October 5, 2008

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Creativity is…??

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ok, everybody knows creativity, There are many interpretations of what creativity is and what it involves. Some people think it is related to being artistic and producing work creatively, and some people believe it is to do with imagination and ideas. First of all, let’s remember that although we use the word “creativity” all the time, it is not something you can put in the boot of your car or sell in a can – it is a nominalisation, and that means it was taken from a verb which describes an activity and frozen into this nebulous noun.

The verb at the bottom of the well is, “to create”.

In essence, this means “to make something”, and that’s our first stop on re-defining creativity.

we can assume that “Being creative is seeing the same thing as everybody else but thinking of something different”

There are many aspects to creativity, but one definition would include the ability to take existing objects and combine them in different ways for new purposes. For example, Gutenberg took the wine press and the die/punch and produced a printing press. Thus, a simple definition of creativity is the action of combining previously uncombined elements. From art, music and invention to household chores, this is part of the nature of being creative. Another way of looking at creativity is as playing with the way things are interrelated. Creativity is the ability to generate novel and useful ideas and solutions to everyday problems and challenges.

Creativity involves the translation of our unique gifts, talents and vision into an external reality that is new and useful. We must keep in mind that creativity takes place unavoidably inside our own personal, social, and cultural boundaries.

The more we define our creativity by identifying with specific sets of values, meanings, beliefs and symbols, the more our creativity will be focused and limited; the more we define our creativity by focusing on how values, meanings, beliefs and symbols are formed, the greater the chance that our creativity will become less restricted.

Long live CREATIVITY!!!!!!!

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