Creativity

Creativity

"Imagination rules the world" ........Napolean Bonaparte

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,

Awesome simple, that's creativity”....... Charles Mingus

The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility. Sometimes they are open and probing, at other times they are playful and off-the-wall. At still other times they are critical and fault finding. And finally they are doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals. From this it can be concluded that the creative process consists of adopting four main roles, each which embodies different type of thinking.

These roles are: explorer, artist, judge and warrior. The creative process includes: look; see what you look at; understand what you see; learn from what you understand; and act on what you learn.

"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know it is the people that call others weird that are weird."... Paul McCartney.

Everyone can be creative. The first task in becoming more creative is to give you permission to do things creatively. The second is overcoming your personal block to creativity. For some people being creative involves trying not to be embarrassed by their own ideas, for others it is a matter of being aware of, confident enough to have fewer inhibitions and can just let their creative natures work.

Creativity is not a gift of some sort; it is a state of being "un etat d'ame".

Creativity is universal human characteristic. Whatever creativity is we all have some of it although we are unlikely to have received the same endowment or opportunity to develop it. Creativity implies appropriate novelty. A series of perspective on creativity are lateral thinking, cognitive angle, scientific opinion and psycho dynamic viewpoint. Creativity is concerned with developing new ideas and to-do this we need to see the problem from a fresh perspective which involves escaping from old ideas. It is a thinking process associated with imagination, insight, invention, innovation, ingenuity, intuition, inspiration and illumination. A good deal of management thinking argues that organization and societal climate culture and structure have a major impact upon creative output. The suggestion is that creative ideas and challenges are welcomed and where people are encouraged to play, rather than controlled and threatened.

Dr. Edward de bono, global guru on creative thinking is widely recognized as the leading authority on thinking and creativity. When he visited India he said: “the intelligence level of Indians is high but that is not enough. What does matter is how you use it. You do not need to be a genius to think creatively. Computers and internet give people access to information. Increased information increases the need to think. From Information age we are moving to IDEA Age..... So what we need is creative thinking to look beyond the future. Analysis, argument, and judgment all are forms of basic thinking which will not be enough for the future."

Stephen Baker says: “there is really nothing elusive or mysterious about creativity.

Anyone who can talk is able to write.

Anyone who can see is able to visualize.

Any anyone who can think is able to have ideas."

Therefore liberate your mind, exercise your creative abilities and reap the ecstasies of creative absorption.


"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works, if from the head almost nothing." Marc Chagall
"To be creative, relax and let your mind go to work, otherwise the result is either a copy of something you did before or reads like an army manual." Kenneth H Gordon,Jr.

Think out of the box and just be creative…………….


published in Womens Era May(Second) 2012, p 35