What is Creativity?
- Creativity is the ability to see the same things as everyone else but think something different.
- Creativity involves the translation of our unique gifts and talents into something that is both new and useful.
- Creativity is an important element in finding new ways to do old things and ways to do things yet undone.
Components of creativity
•Knowledge – all the relevant understanding an individual bring to bear on a creative effort.
•Creative thinking – related to how people approach problem and depends on personality and thinking or work style.
•Motivation – generally accepted as a key to creative production, and the most important are intrinsic passion and interest in the work itself.
Creative Thinking
- Creative Thinking refers to the ability to form new combinations of ideas to fulfil a need, or to get original or otherwise appropriate results by the criteria of the domain in question.
Barriers to Creativity
- Self-constraining beliefs – the participant makes the problem more difficult by assuming certain constraining conditions that do not exist.
- Fears, beliefs, and stresses – people that fear criticism or have strong beliefs may have limited ability to be “free” and creative.
- Routines and rigidity – this may inhibit the information gathering, interactions, and incubation of thought that leads to creativity.
"Being creative is the ability to think outside the box."
