What Can Creativity Do?

You cannot use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.                        

Maya Angelou     

What can creativity do? What is it? Below are some common definitions of creativity – How do your perceptions compare to those of the experts?

Creativity is….

Creativity is marked by the ability or power to create and bring into existence, to invest with a new form, to produce through imaginative skill, to make or bring into existence something new [Common definition from Webster's].

The use of the imagination or original ideas, esp. in the production of an artistic work [Common definition from Dictionary.com].

The occurrence of a composition which is both new and valuable [Henry Miller (writer)].

The ability to make new combinations of social worth [John Haefele (CEO and entrepreneur)].

Any thinking process in which original patterns are formed and expressed [H. H. Fox (scientist)].

Fluency, flexibility, originality, and sometimes elaboration.

[E. Paul Torrance (educator, academic, creativity investigator).

 

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being...[Rollo May (writer, philosopher)].

Creative thinking involves imagining familiar things in a new light, digging below the surface to find previously undetected patterns, and finding connections among unrelated phenomena [Roger von Oech].

... the ability to use different modes of thought to generate new and dynamic ideas and solutions [Carnevale, Gainer, Meltzer].

I wrote this blog because I want to share with you one of my favourite YouTube videos, it’s called What Can Creativity Do? and I find it both inspirational and motivational. Take 2.53 mins to watch the video below and see what creativity can do… Enjoy!

 

UG xx