What is Creativity?

ByAdmin August 18, 2021

Week 1 What is Creativity? >>> Cracking the Creativity Code: Discovering Ideas

Making something novel.

Widening the range of choices.

Making something different than what exists.

Producing ideas that are unusual or unique.

The firm belief that we need to reinvent things constantly.

The firm belief that if you let your imagination soar, it will eventually come up with something novel.

The firm belief that it is always possible to create things not previously known.

The firm belief that the ideas for solving challenges all exist; we simply need to ‘harvest’ them.

Why? For whom? How? And last, what?

What to invent? How to invent it? And for whom we do this?

Who we serve? What they need? Why they need it? How to meet their need?

What to invent? And why we want to?

Some people completely lack essential creativity genes.

Creativity is fully determine by our nature (our genetic make-up).

There is no link whatsoever between genes and creativity.

Creativity is not predetermined by your genes, though stimulation can ‘turn on’ genes that foster creative ideas.

Ability to handle sums of money.

Trans-disciplinarity (the ability to combine several different disciplines, in seeking new ideas).

Athletic ability.

Knowledge of languages.

Clever engineers found a way to bring sunshine to the village square during the dark winter days.

The villagers used social media to re-connect.

The villagers used the midnight sun as a tourist attraction.

Engineers used solar panels to power village lighting.

A coffee-and-bakery food chain offered to let its customers decide how much to pay for the food they choose, including zero.

A coffee and bakery chain allowed homeless to sleep in its entryways.

A coffee and bakery chain created a low-price range of sandwiches.

A coffee and bakery chain offered a 25 % discount to those who could not pay.

Act, don’t gripe, then break the rules, break the chains of habit, be persistent.

Break the chains of habit, then be persistent, break the rules, act don’t gripe.

Be persistent, then act don’t gripe, break the chains of habit, be persistent.

Break the rules, then be persistent, act don’t gripe, break the chains of habit.

Creative people give themselves, and others, permission to be wrong.

Creative people never give up.

Creative people know how to work well with others.

Creative people can overcome failure.

“You cannot solve a problem unless you think out of the box.”

“You cannot solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it.”

“You cannot solve a problem unless you first convince yourself you can.”

“You cannot solve a problem unless you have mastered your subject.”