Where It All Begins
Trying to answer what creativity is, is like trying to explain what water tastes like. Pretty difficult, eh? Well maybe it's a spot in your brain that gets programmed when you're born, and everybody's is the same, but as soon as you open up your tiny infant eyes you have the power to let your creativity grow. That spot in your brain might be what makes you, well... you! How you do things as a child, the scribbles only you can interpret; the imaginary friends no one else sees. Or even the make-believe lives you act out in your bedrooms. That is creativity, and that's where it all begins.
Okay, maybe that's not what creativity really is. By definition it's the ability to transcend traditional ideas, and to create meaningful ideas. Essentially, the ability to create, and do it like no one else. If you set a blank piece of paper down in front of some people and tell them to draw you a picture, they would be stumped. Being able to pick something floating around in their brain would be just too hard for some to accomplish. Although for others, the struggle would be picking one of the many things they can pull up when given a clean slate. But if you are a creative person, you might not pick one thing like the close minded person, but more of a collage of thoughts that are skillfully drawn together to form a collage type of drawing, ultimately creating something no one else has ever seen before. Just like trying to compare Alice in Wonderland to the Encyclopedia of Worms, the difference is immense.
Now don't get me wrong, the person who drew up a simple cartoon dog over a forest of mushrooms and crazy trees may still have great ideas in life, but that might mean they just can't get outside the box. As a child, nothing you do is ordinary, and that's where creativity starts if you take the belief of your imaginary friend, and never let that part of your mind die out -- even when you know they aren't real -- it could grow forever, and never stop. Just instead of finding ways to be entertained as a youngster, you could be choosing the design for the logo of the business you decided to start up. It's a hard thing, trying to pin point what creativity actually is. Because for some people it's different than others. An artist could paint an abstract piece and it could be creative to the art world, but the rest of society see's it as a big mess of paint. A music writer could come up with an amazing new analogy in a song, but no one but literary people would understand it. There is nothing wrong with not getting others creativity, because they opened up that piece in their brain with things they could do. Fashion designers, architects, graphic designers, photographers, even regular people, all have different forms of creativity. And if you open up or mind to do what could potentially become, you could create something solely out of your brain, that no one has ever seen before.
Okay, maybe that's not what creativity really is. By definition it's the ability to transcend traditional ideas, and to create meaningful ideas. Essentially, the ability to create, and do it like no one else. If you set a blank piece of paper down in front of some people and tell them to draw you a picture, they would be stumped. Being able to pick something floating around in their brain would be just too hard for some to accomplish. Although for others, the struggle would be picking one of the many things they can pull up when given a clean slate. But if you are a creative person, you might not pick one thing like the close minded person, but more of a collage of thoughts that are skillfully drawn together to form a collage type of drawing, ultimately creating something no one else has ever seen before. Just like trying to compare Alice in Wonderland to the Encyclopedia of Worms, the difference is immense.
Now don't get me wrong, the person who drew up a simple cartoon dog over a forest of mushrooms and crazy trees may still have great ideas in life, but that might mean they just can't get outside the box. As a child, nothing you do is ordinary, and that's where creativity starts if you take the belief of your imaginary friend, and never let that part of your mind die out -- even when you know they aren't real -- it could grow forever, and never stop. Just instead of finding ways to be entertained as a youngster, you could be choosing the design for the logo of the business you decided to start up. It's a hard thing, trying to pin point what creativity actually is. Because for some people it's different than others. An artist could paint an abstract piece and it could be creative to the art world, but the rest of society see's it as a big mess of paint. A music writer could come up with an amazing new analogy in a song, but no one but literary people would understand it. There is nothing wrong with not getting others creativity, because they opened up that piece in their brain with things they could do. Fashion designers, architects, graphic designers, photographers, even regular people, all have different forms of creativity. And if you open up or mind to do what could potentially become, you could create something solely out of your brain, that no one has ever seen before.