Creativity is the ability to come up with new, original ideas. These ideas can be inspired from anywhere and anything; a book, a movie, or a photograph. But, what if you use someone elses idea as your own? This qualifies as intellectual theft. So what’s the difference between intellectual theft and creativity? It’s how you go through the creative process. In order to understand the difference between intellectual theft and creativity and what it means to be creative, we must explore the entire concept of intellectual theft, how we find inspiration, and the way we use this inspiration.
Let’s delve into this idea of intellectual theft a little further. The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines intellectual theft as, “...robbing people …show more content…
First, we must understand how we create and how we can be creative. To do that we must know how we find inspiration. Inspiration is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as, “something that makes someone want to do something or that gives someone an idea about what to do or create : a force or influence that inspires someone.” This definition itself explains so much about how we find our inspiration. Thinking that you have to get new ideas from within yourself is a common misconception. But as we observe different creations such as books, movies, art, songs, or photographs, we gather or “steal” our ideas. Most likely we gather our ideas from mediums we enjoy. As stated in Steal Like an Artist, “The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best-write the story you want to read.” You get inspiration from what you like. That’s how we get inspired and that is the entire goal of being creative. The only reason to be creative is to make something you enjoy. Read a suspenseful mystery novel, which will spark a new idea in your head about a movie starring Robert Downey Jr. as an ace detective in the middle of
Let’s delve into this idea of intellectual theft a little further. The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines intellectual theft as, “...robbing people …show more content…
First, we must understand how we create and how we can be creative. To do that we must know how we find inspiration. Inspiration is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as, “something that makes someone want to do something or that gives someone an idea about what to do or create : a force or influence that inspires someone.” This definition itself explains so much about how we find our inspiration. Thinking that you have to get new ideas from within yourself is a common misconception. But as we observe different creations such as books, movies, art, songs, or photographs, we gather or “steal” our ideas. Most likely we gather our ideas from mediums we enjoy. As stated in Steal Like an Artist, “The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best-write the story you want to read.” You get inspiration from what you like. That’s how we get inspired and that is the entire goal of being creative. The only reason to be creative is to make something you enjoy. Read a suspenseful mystery novel, which will spark a new idea in your head about a movie starring Robert Downey Jr. as an ace detective in the middle of