Lesson 2

Being creative is seeing the same thing as everybody else but thinking of something different  (Shekerjian, D.1990).

 
The definite definition of the word creativity has long been an argument among many scholar and researchers.(Amabile, 1996. P 19)

 Howard Gardner, psychologist at Harvard University says, being creative means doing something which is first of all unusual

 Creativity is the process of generating something new that has value. There are many new ideas and concepts, but some may not have value and hence may not be considered creative. A creation is something original that has value

 Therefore, creativity does not happen inside people’s heads, but in the interaction between a person’s thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic rather than individual phenomenon.

Creativity is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest them from thought into reality. The process involves original thinking and then producing.The process of creation was historically reserved for deities creating "from nothing" in Creationism and other creation myths. Over time, the term creativity came to include human innovation, especially in art and science and led to the emergence of the creative class

 

To understand creativity is not just to study the individuals but also the social mechanisms that stimulated their idea and the social network that recognized and spread their innovation.


According to Dr. Edward de Bono, the human mind can be regarded as an insoluble mystery.He illustrates the mind's tendency to create and combine rigid patterns, to build myths, to polarize and divide, and then relates these mechanisms to the various modes of thinking such as natural, logical, mathematical, and lateral and He illustrates the mind's tendency to create and combine rigid patterns, to build myths, to polarize and divide, and then relates these mechanisms to the various modes of thinking such as natural, logical, mathematical, and lateral 

As said by de Bono, “creativity is not 'natural' to human brain therefore a thinking skill needs to be develop in order to becomes creative. Nothing is more important than human thinking or thinking creatively. Thinking can be taught across all cultures, ages and abilities. It is not a matter of intelligence or of knowledge