Mihalyi's Systems Perspective Of Creativity

Creativity can be explained by the 4 Ps model by Rhodes (as cited in Ng, 2009). It is the creative person engaging in creative process to conceive the creative product. All that, are facilitated in a creative press or environment (Ng, 2007). Therefore, creativity transcend further than having a novel idea. It has to be manifested in the real world as a tangible creative product.

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).

Csikszentmihalyi (1996) asserted that creativity is not merely new and valuable ideas or actions. There has to be a form of sociocultural evaluation for new ideas and actions to be deemed creative, and measured against acceptable standards with the field (1996). I contend with Csikszentmihalyi assertion because it subjects the works of the creative individual to peer review; more importantly to their approval. Notwithstanding my reservation, one thing is clear sociocultural evaluation (or peer review and approval), is important because it sets parameters or socially acceptable limits for the practice of creativity.

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).

“There are myths surrounding creativity. The intangible nature of creativity does not lend itself to easy definition”.

As Carl Gustav Jung wisely stated, there is a certain fascination with regard to creativity. Creativity expresses itself in many different forms, shapes, sizes, colours and sounds. It is a concept difficult to grasp as it is broad. However most people would think of themselves as being able to judge who and what is actually creative. But what exactly is “creativity”? Amible (1983) defines creativity as the production of ideas, insights and also products that are both, original and adaptive. Originality in this context refers to novelty of an idea and adaptation to the appropriateness. This is the definition predominantly used in creativity research (Sternberg & Lubart 1999; Simonton & Damian,2013) and is therefore used in this paper as well.

It is visible in M&S’s operational process that understanding the creative processes along with fostering those involving the employees, often results in leaders find them selves at the top not only within the organisation , but also within the industries as well ( Purvanova et al., 2006 ). By such processes , the leaders make them selves enable to know how to adapt the creativity along with developing their own workforce by which development of new services or products can be implemented successfully . In such cases , creativity often considered by the leaders as a form of technique as well as intelligences (Davidson et.al. , 2004 ).

Introduction: - Everyone is born with some creativity. We know that everyone have some specific ability to perform something. Creativity is not limited it is very wide in nature, each and every field we find creativity. Creativity not only helps to get better status in society but also helps to earn livelihood. There are many types of creativity, for example people have creativity like, creative in writing, creativity in art and craft, creativity in teaching, creativity in play etc. there are various type of creativity people have. There are many scholars who gave different definition of creativity and many researches done on creativity.

* Stage one of the creative process – searching for the problem – emphasizes the importance of responding to problems in triggering one’s creativity (Ruggiero, 2009).

“ Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something,they feel a little guilty because they did note rally do it,they just saw something.It seemed obvious to them after a while”- Steve Jobs.

There are many methods used to measure how creative a person is, therefore, within this essay I will focus on a few methods by giving informative descriptions and providing a range of sources to back up these methods validity. Creativity is the ability to excel established ideas, rules, systems, relationships and to generate important new ideas, methods, explanations etc. The effectiveness of each measure of creativity effectively conducted in different experiments using different methods. The results from the experiments display an ability to understand how creative a person is.

Creativity has been on my mind for quite some time. When I think back to my childhood and when I look at my own children, I see how innately creative children are. All day long they are engaged in fantasy and imagination and are continually exploring their world with fascination, and through this, bringing creation forth.

The process of human development as well as all the achievements that are made by men are closely linked to the aspect of creativity. In the past, a number of scholars have carried out research on creativity from a number of aspects like that of studying the 4P model. In most of there researches, a number of measures were used in differentiating those abilities that were termed as high and low (Lin, et al., 2012). Additionally, in finding the potential that people have regarding their creativity, most of the scholars have applied the psychometric approach while applying the cognitive approach in the process of developing solutions to a number of creative problems that are identified in the society.

Creative ideas are the result of a wide-ranged experimentation on the part of our subconscious. These brilliant life-changing ideas are generated, bizarrely truthful, inside us which are strengthened and created by our experiences and thoughts. The brain desires to come up with innovative thoughts.

According to the ethnographic approach defined by Papen and Tusting (2006, p.312-359), creativity refers the production of something ‘new’ and ‘original’. In written language, creativeness should not be perceived as a decontextualised, individual activity or as being entirely shaped by context. It should be seen as being dependent on and emergent from the creative literacy practices through which texts are constructed because they are shaped by people, who in pursuit of their own