Summary: On Defining Creativity

For the entirety of the fall semester, I took on a project to create a three-page layout for a fictional campaign in National Geographic magazine about endangered species. The goal was to create different content for my portfolio, challenging my skills in photography and photo-manipulation. I transformed people into animals and used gel lighting and Photoshop to create my artwork (see Appendix A figure 1 & 2). At the end of the semester, I reviewed my completed pieces and two theorists best fit my creative process, Julie Burstein, and Teresa Amabile. Julie Burstein discusses the best way to foster creativity is by ‘letting go’ she outlines this in four lessons (Campbell and Dubois, “Artist Best practices” 25). These lessons include experiences, challenges, limitations and loss (Campbell and Dubois, “Artist Best practices” 25). While Teresa Amabile discusses how the theory of creativity is fostered through her componential model of creativity (Campbell and Dubois, “On theories of” 14). These include domain-relevant skills, creative thinking skills and motivation (Campbell and Dubois, “On theories of” 14). Both of these theorists go hand in hand providing me with the framework for my best work. This essay will discuss how Amabile’s theory for intrinsic motivation and Burstein’s lesson of experience and loss, align in my creative process to be conducive to my work.

Commercial success and true ‘artistry’ or creativity seem to be contradict with each other. However, I don’t agree this statement and it’s not correct at all. I’m going to use the Beatles, the musical Hair and Pink Floyd as examples (as they gained success in both aspects) to explain how these two elements can coexist in the following essay.

In the context of creativity’s stated definition, we will proceed to group our arguments into three themes of factors: cognitive ability, expertise training, and environmental conditions. The human brain is highly adaptable and can continue to develop new cognitive abilities, even past adulthood (Norman, 2015). Proper cognitive expertise and training can help workers produce and operate in ingenious ways (Ginamarie, Lertiz & Mumford, 2004). Finally, the working environment can both motivate or stifle creative output. Managers can influence all three components: expertise, thinking skills, and motivation (Amabile, 1998).

The author of this article examines creative culture and societal changes that are making organizations rethink their view on creativity as well as to integrate knowledge of the creative procedure to their own frame of reference, focusing on exploring the 3 primary areas; social trends, creativity and advocacy, whilst also exhibiting deliberation for the intermingling of said themes and exhibits a clear-cut view that creativity and the creative procedure are imperative to the enrichment of the person, corporation and humanity, especially in current times.

The book Creativity. Inc. , by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace, is the chronological journey of Ed Catmul and Pixar from the early days until today. The best part of reading Creativity, Inc is that you know that Ed Catmull isn’t just talking the talk, he’s walking the walk. This book is separated into 4 categories: Getting Started, Protecting The New, Building and Sustaining and Testing What We Know.

In regards to creative expression, It means to represent oneself through culture or art. This can also be defined as an artifact only limited by your imagination and the requirements. During this artifact I was given the task of creating my own menu for a restaurant. This artifact was considered a creative expression because we got to design our own restaurant, including its name, foods and prices. Me and my partner got the chance to actually create our own restaurant that focused around Hispanic and Chinese foods.I am guessing that our spanish teacher wanted us to express our creativity in a unique way and see that we are capable of thinking outside the box. Through this projects I learned more about foods in different cultures and seeing

The creative industries are steeped in stereotypes and generalisations; it is possible to argue that these assumptions and generalisations have the ability to impact on creativity and creative work. There are generalizations that exist that state that creatives are intrinsically motivated and managers extrinsically motivated. Impacts surrounding these generalisations, such as stereotyping, constricting creative inspiration and stress placed on creatives limiting creative work will be further discussed in this essay. The final argument can be made that in fact these generalisations do not apply to all creatives and to all management personal, and that it is a process that involves both sides evaluating, and moulding their styles to certain management

The term creativity is used for the purpose of describing the ability that is concerned with the process of creating something new or valuable. This ability allows a person to surpass the rules, practices, methods, forms or similar kind of activities that the traditional society may be performing at that time. Creativity is one of the most important things that have allowed the people of the society to move forward and urge for development. All the development that has been made in various aspects of human life can be directly connected with the creativity. All the industry leaders of the world have secured this place because of the level of creativity and innovation that they showed. They used this creativity for creating something new that has allowed them to develop completely new methods for this purpose.

In What Do We Know About Creativity? Jose Gomez defines an idea as being creative when it “brings new insight to a given situation….[it] includes the ability to change one’s approach to a problem, produce ideas that are both relevant and unusual” (30). This quote is very important because it gives an idea of a way to classify what a creative idea can look like. I find it particularly difficult to define what creativity means because when I think of the word creativity, I think of an indefinite amount of things that would fit under the word. I believe coming up with a concise definition would be near impossible without leaving out multiple ways to exercise the word. The way this author describes a creative idea is helpful because he manages to

Throughout this creative arts class, I have learned much about creativity and how it fits in our world around us. I see myself as creative person and am so thankful that I understand and appreciate God’s gift of creativity given to us. We are to use our creativity to glorify God in all that we do. I appreciate all of God’s creation and use it to be more creative. My views of creativity have changed by learning more about how creativity has been valued over time in our cultures. Creativity is essential for sustainability in the future. I believe that creativity will continue to change over time. Werner (2000) sums this up, “I believe that as our lives and our global ideology of creativity evolve, we will acknowledge more clearly both how much lies beyond creativity, and how creativity is our human drive toward the beyond” (p. 270).

In the 21st century, technology is an unavoidable part of most lives. The Internet, mobile phones, computers, laptops, and televisions have become the preliminary mediums for accessing information. Constantly, the media is reporting findings from the scientific community. However, an important distinction must be made between the media and the scientific findings of credible organizations and individuals. Although the popular press has a larger audience, findings from sound science are less likely to be construed in a distorted way. A significant example of this statement is embodied by a recent study on the relationship between information technology and creativity. This paper serves to discuss and analyze both a research article on the study and an article written by USA Today.

In this essay I will explore the correlation between intelligence (IQ) and creativity (DT), and whether one is influenced or can be predicted by the existence of the other. The relationship between IQ (intelligence quotient) and creativity has been an anchor point for psychological research. Numerous amounts of psychologists have carried out research in order to find evidence to support this idea of a correlation or evidence to disprove the hypothesis that IQ and creativity could be related.

“Creative thinking brings about new things – innovations .........Creative people are those who produce such innovations and the creative process consist of the psychological processes involved in bringing about innovations” (Weisberg, 2006.)

If anyone were to trace back to the beginnings of any civilization, creativity would be evidenced through its people 's culture and development . In fact, creativity can be found in the underpinnings of problem solving for survival, like the invention of the wheel and discovery of fire (Gladding, 2008). Even more contemporary advancements in counseling can find it’s roots in seeking to meet needs and solve problems. Because counselors are held in high regard by most of their clients, it is important for today’s counselors to have the background knowledge and current awareness of best practices and contemporary trend in counseling.

The brothers Kellogg found cornflakes haphazardly when they forgot about some cooked wheat. When they found it, it had gone stale. They forced it through a roll, hoping to obtain long sheets of the dough. But what they found instead were flakes, which they toasted (Kellogg Company, 2007: Online). Although their original intention was not to produce cornflakes, personally I think that Guilford´s model is still appropriate, just in a less obvious way. The divergent thinking here lies in the fact that unlike most people, they didn´t throw the bad wheat away and rather decided to work with it. On a later stage they recognized the value of their findings and hence, learned how to use them. This shows the creativity as stated by Guilford. He doesn´t mention intelligence explicitly, neither the capacity of learning and reasoning nor the ability of recognizing important information and making links. Nevertheless it appears clear to me, that this is the basis of his whole concept of creativity. Without this kind of intelligence, the four steps stated above, especially the elaboration of ideas, become impossible.