Creativity

Creative Brain
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Does anyone have an idea about creativity?

If you are an actor who knows how to improvise, a writer who brings unusual topics to publish, a musician who composes or creates new pieces, a photographer who comes with new shoot techniques even with poor materials a painter who creates simple ways to come up with attractive paintings, then you should be a creative person, if your are studying a new language and could figure out how to easily memorise grammar rules, if you already have ideas about how to exploit and get benefits from your knowledge in this language once you finish it… then you are a creative person.

Not only this, in many other situations, creative ideas can emerge, but the question is,

What exactly creativity is?

Creativity is: when someone can turn his ideas, imagination or dreams into reality, being creative means that you can make connections between things that aren’t normally related, you can see the hidden patterns between things, all that depends on creative thinking.

A man called Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist who is interested in this field, defines creativity as the central source of meaning in people’s lives. He said that most of the things that are important, interesting and human are the result of creativity.

Deeper than that he said: “ when a person is engaged with creating something new they can’t even pay attention to their bodies or many personal problems they may be having. When someone is in the middle of the creative process he can’t feel even that he’s hungry or tired, his body disappears, and his identity disappears from his consciousness because he doesn’t have enough attention like others, to really do well something that requires a lot of concentration and at the same time to feel that he exists and that he is living more fully than during the rest of life”

Hearing this, and that let us ask the question,

Is creative thinking learned or natural?

In reality, at the beginning we all are born creative, as we are kids we are creative geniuses, in a certain period we learn by ourselves, we create our own ways to acquire new knowledge, we develop our own games, we somehow invent our own happiness, we create our own language to communicate with other kids or our parents to get whatever we want, but over time as we get older we are told to get real, stick to rules and programs that’s when our sense of creativity vanish and disappear day after day, as we become adults everyone tends to get a job and to keep it even if it’s something he doesn’t like in order to make the future safe and after some time everyone fix his own non-creative behaviours which become a routine or comfort zone which finally develop into a fear of learning something new, doing what we love or realizing our dreams.

But against all that if someone is enough aware about these facts and really know what he loves and what he wants to do he can and despite all circumstances re-teach himself how to be creative and get into the habits of practising creativity once again by experimenting, exploring, questioning and using imagination according to the basics he already has in any field or domain and then after much practice and mastering things creativity emerges.

In the end, we all should do what we love most in life at least do it as a hobby, and keep practising until we become masters and reach creativity level.

“We have to create every day; there is a creator in all of us”

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