What Is Creativity? - Graeme Smith - Bog

Creativity is possessed by all people.Even without teaching.Educational methods can develop creativity to a higher degree.So the value of appropriate behaviour is stressed.Then is the interaction of perception, affect and cognition which is creativity.Creativity provides appropriate strategies to solve problems.So expose students to the creative process.And nurture their creative response to develop creative behaviour in general.These strategies should be planned, deliberate, sequenced and largely non-verbal.A diagram illustrates various OBJECTIVES.The essence of creativity is interaction of feeling, thinking and doing.So each learning experience should be enjoyable but serious.This is primarily a time for action rather than talk.The learning experience should be seen to be self-rewarding.Each individual should work independently.If you say creativity what does it mean?Creativity is the ability to take two ideas that already exist.They may be in two different sentences or even in two different fields.You then put them together and connect them.So what you do when you create is try to connect two separate ideas.That logically would not go together up until that moment.So, you look for a connection.You look for a brand new connection.If you have a brand new word connection, you can startle a reader with it.It might even stop your reader, or inspire, move or sell to your reader.Self-generated creativity.It is tough to sit down in front of a blank page or screen and say,"OK, I'm going to create."You can't think about anything except what you're going to write.You can't think about how much pressure you have.You can't think about how much money is involved.How can you free yourself from all this anxiety, blockage, and self-doubt?It's very simple, of course, use an old Zen trick.Zen masters are enormously proficient, and have been for 2,000 years.They have a very simple system which you can use every day.You walk into the same place that you always work at.I happen to work at home.I don't work anywhere except at the desk I've written at for almost 40 years.I even paint there!But that desk is arranged just how I like it.I come in at a set time, I never keep it although it's usually around 7:00 am.I know I'm going to be there every morning.So I come in, and do the same thing each day.I have one cup of coffee in the morning, and that's my coffee for the day.I open my computer, and bring up the file I'm working on.There's fifty pages staring at me, but more likely I'll check my emails first.There is absolutely no necessity for me to work on the copy.I can sit there.I can stare.I can drink the coffee.I can stare some more, drink some more coffee.I can do anything in the world except NOT get up from the desk.So sometimes I just sit there.Usually boredom is in one or two minutes so I look at stuff.Mostly it is emails that have arrived overnight.Then what I do is I work.I am now so absorbed I don't notice the time passing.But when I'm finished.I am going to interrupt myself and do anything I want.Maybe the bathroom, scratch my head - do anything I want for five minutes.The whole secret is to know when you're working.You work with a series of building blocks, and put the blocks together.And then you are putting them in certain structures.You are assembling images and sentences.