Creativity

Creativity can be defined as the ability to produce something new that wasn't there before. Imagination and creativity make people unique and help people to do amazing things. They captivate the hearts, eyes, and minds of people. It is so remarkable because it does not come from any senses or perceptions- it is all inside the mind. Thinking creatively can help people to overcome obstacles in life or to think of new ideas to get further in their business or workforce. Imagination is inherent for…

Creativity is the basis for a company’s success. Having employees that are willing to step outside of the box is what can make a company outshine another. After listening to a TED talk on creativity, and reading profiles on people whom have been named as some of the “most creative people in business” I believe I know how to encourage creativity in the workplace. Firstly, I believe that employees should be able to leave their normal work setting, and go somewhere that they believe will inspire…

Creativity, as a basic concept, is the ability for people to be imaginative and construct novel concepts to further knowledge and understanding in a specific field. It is often most referred to when speaking of artistic endeavours in fields such as the arts, music and literature. It is fundamentally bound to psychology in the sense that it is so closely associated with individual capacity to influence and be influenced by others. Psychologists’ have long asked the question of what exactly…

Reading the book Creativity flow and the psychology of discovery and invention was an eye-opening experience. All though, it was repetitive and dull at times, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi manages to fill the book with extremely insightful and thought-provoking ideas on life. He continually managed to shift gears from a slow pacing book to an Awakening masterpiece. That was a first for me because I usually hate slow books. If you also want to be proven wrong that slow and dull books can have a lot of…

What makes creative or creativity different? In this part, creative will be explained in two areas: creative problem-solving and the characteristics of the creative individual. There are two essential factors that indicate a solution to a problem categorised as a creative solution: the solution must be novel, and it should solve the question as a problem (Weisberg, 1986). Additionally, Weisberg (1986) also emphasised some factors that play a role in creative problem-solving. Perceptual…

Nurturing Creativity in Education, published to the European Journal of Education on September 1, 2014, was written by Paul Collard and Janet Looney. The authors aimed this article at informing their readers in understanding that creativity is an essential factor for education. Most people have heard the word “creativity” and have a basic understanding of what the word means, but the article gives us a clearer viewpoint on the subject of creativity. It states that “creativity is widely…

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Barbara Kerr: Creativity and Counseling Exploring a new field can be both exciting and daunting for students and adults continuing their education. When one can identify with an expert in a field of study, one feels a stronger connection and perhaps a newfound passion for the field. In the field of Gifted and Talented Education, some teachers may feel disconnected in the plethora of new information until they see their ideals described in the studies or their likeness among the traits of gifted…

imagination, information and initiative in gaining greater or different values from resources, and this includes all processes by which new ideas are generated and converted into useful products. creativity and innovation in business, while there are a lot of definition for creativity and innovation, creativity can be seen as going beyond certain boundaries, whether is technology, knowledge, beliefs or social norms and acting on them by bringing them to life. Innovation is not just about…

The Connection Between Mental Illness and Artistic Creativity In my UNV Let’s Go Arts class we are beginning to learn how to research and use the library so we can become better writers for papers such as these. For the class, we had to pick a topic and then try to write a rough outline of what we think the paper would sound and look like with quotes from articles and citations. I was having trouble trying to pick out a topic because of the many general ideas I had, mental illness and modern art…