Engl/220 Week 1 Reflection

Prior to completing ENGL 2200, I had many misconceptions. I believed creativity to simply turn a new and innovative idea into reality and in order to be creative as well as imaginative you must act on the ideas you develop. I learned that creativity is so much more in addition to being the foundation for developing newer technology, literature, artwork, and so much more in life. I also believed imagination to be a personal thing and what stimulates thoughts for myself may not be the same thing that stimulates thoughts for others. I am the type of person who when faced with a problem that needs a solution, I generate ideas with fluency and flexibility. My thoughts are provoked when I am tasked with something I do not particularly already know how to do. I also realized in the early onset of this course that being nervous is a creative thinking stimulator as when I am scared my mind goes to the extremity of situations. …show more content…
I learned that there is more to creativity and imagination then just conjuring up an idea inside of your head, there are ways to contribute to an idea to expand it or manipulate an idea to shape a better idea. I also learned there are many factors that contribute to creativity such as words and sentences, images, metaphors, etc. I also learned there is a distinction between creativity and imagination as imagination is concerned with something that is not present while creativity is doing something significant with your imagination. This course taught me so much about creativity, I cannot express it all in 300