5 Words Associated To "Creativity"
When thinking of creativity some popular words that associated with it are "different", "color", "abnormal" and "new". Below are my 5 words and reasons.
1. Fun
Obviously when you are playing around with creativity you need the element of fun! Doing creativity with fun will motivate you to enjoy seeking new idea and you will definitely feel happy to undergoes any hardships. The more fun you have, the more enjoy you are and thus the more creative you are!
2. Craziness
You need to go crazy sometimes to enable finding new idea. Our thought are full of built in knowledge, our views are fixed since the day we born and many of us think by following what we learnt from the books and theories and these have hindered us to think creatively. Thus thinking with the right amount of craziness allow us to think in many different perspective without restriction and so we could come out with many kinds of new ideas.
3.Special
Creativity is specialty. How much creative you are is always by looking at how special is your creation is. A special creation or idea produces unique structure where there is no same product in the world. Special may not necessary be a new thing but something different than anything that already existed.
4.Brave
To be creative you need to be brave. Sometimes people just don't agree with your creative idea and this is where bravery comes in. You need to be brave to believe in your creativity, be brave to accept comments on your idea and also brave to speak out your idea to people. If you are not brave enough to do so, people will not know your creativity!
5.Testing
Creativity is a process. People don't come out with new idea in a one shot. There is always a flow of process. They think, they try, they failed and they think again just like Thomas Edison, in other words they always test. This process is repeated until they come out with an useful success idea. You will never know which idea is the most creative until you try them out one by one and so, testing associated creativity.
5 Words Not Associated To "Creativity"
It is quite interesting to think in an opposite way. Some of us came out with interesting words such as "coward", "mainstream", "homeless", "sadness" and even "politic". Well below are my version.
1.Restriction
Creativity should not has restriction as it prevents to think creatively. Creativity should not bind with restriction such as the rules and laws of physics and all the built in knowledge and theories in the world. Think of it, if you think by following these laws you will not have the "Tom and Jerry" cartoon.
2. Same
Creativity has nothing to do with this word. You are free to copy or use some of the old or existed creations and improvise it with your own new idea but not 100 per cent follow exactly the same. If you do so, that is not creativity it is just repeating what we have already created.3. Boring
People always find creative things interesting whether they are good or bad. If they look or see your idea as boring that means they have already heard that somewhere before you spoken it. In other words it means that you are repeating a preexisted idea which also means that your idea is not special.
4. Satisfaction
Creativity must not do with satisfaction. If you do so, you will not continue to think in many perspective and to seek more idea. You can agree with your idea but not satisfy with it! Try thinking if people are satisfied with the computers and if so we will not have the electronic tablets now.
5. Laziness
You will not be succeed if you don't start to give out your first step. As simple as that, you will not have creativity if you are lazy to find the way to achieve that.
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Respond And Reflect To The Ken Robinson 2006 Ted Talk Episode On Creativity Education And Intelligence
Kindly check out the link to learn more of Sir Ken Robinson's Talk
Hearing Mr. Ken Robinson's talk has really stroke me of the important of having creativity in education! I am truly agree when he said that "If we are not prepared to be wrong we will never come out with anything original". This bring back of my childhood memory.
When I was first in kindergarten my teacher once asked me what "1 + 1" is so without any hesitation I answered "11". You may think how cute was I giving such nonsense answer but think deeply this happened in you too! I mean you did have once given this kind of answer right? But to be honest it is not wrong of saying "1 + 1 = 11". If you really put "1" with another "1" it is "11"!
As time past by, I soon sat for my kindergarten exam and I came across with the same question again. But this time I answered "2". Why? The answer is simple because I was afraid. I was afraid of putting "11" as I know I wont get any marks if I did so and people would look at me in a weird way. Because of I was afraid to undergoes any of these so I put "2".
As time past by, I soon sat for my kindergarten exam and I came across with the same question again. But this time I answered "2". Why? The answer is simple because I was afraid. I was afraid of putting "11" as I know I wont get any marks if I did so and people would look at me in a weird way. Because of I was afraid to undergoes any of these so I put "2".
Subconsciously, we do have ideas to do things differently or creatively but because we dare not to try out the ideas as we worry that that may triggered any unwanted problems and we are so afraid to counter them, thus we began to ignore that thought but follow what have already given. As time past by, that thought, the thought of doing think creatively has been locked up, hidden beneath our mind !
Education indeed is the problem. Teachers follow everything in the books and written them exactly on the blackboard. What leave for the students to do are just accepting all the knowledge without any thinking and questioning, nothing but absorbing it passively. The scenario in here is, they implant students with preexisted knowledge but do not teach them to seek alternative knowledge in them.
This eventually creates people that don't have their own idea. People who do not create new knowledge but only follow. If so, we will only have what we already had through out the centuries and nothing new would be created. Thus we need creativity in education. Be brave to think,be brave to do, be brave to make mistakes so that we can find new ways to correct the mistakes and we find our way to create new things!
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