I remember failing in an interview when the interviewer asked me what music adds to me and I said "creativity" an then he asked me how I applied that creativity in Engineering ! and I gave some vague answer.
Failing that was pretty sure. but later that led me to think about creativity ! so today I will talk about creativity !
What is it ?
http://www.dictionary.com/ says: Having the ability or power to create!
Just that ?! A few days back I wrote a C code that could find crystallinity in the structure ! Is that creativity or is it more to it ?
Lets find out ! To me, its quintessential art put at the top of science...Refer to my post when I talked about World's best ! Its something like that. Its a God's gift. Be it science, Music, Theatre, Finearts, architecture, photography, or what not.
I guess its much more than mere science behind anything. I will give a few examples why I think its more than the mere science. When I look at this bridge, I know that there is not only science behind it but the art as well ! Its a perfect example of creativity in Architecture !
When I look at Jordan Stairs State Hermitage St. Petersburg, Russia, I see the fantastic architecture and interior decoration behind it. I call it more than architecture ! Its creativity !
Look at Buckingham Fountain at Night, Chicago, Illinois -- Its beauty amazes me and leads me to think am I creative enough at what I do or was he who designed it !
Look at this picture of romantic couple kissing somewhere ! its so natural -- Where is the creativity ? In the photography !
A few of my friends said to me that they were not creative at all ! I disagree ! Dear friends, just give wings to imagination ! and the path is ready for you...creativity is in you and not in the subject. It can be applied to whatever you can think of !
Everyone has problems and challenges that need solving; they're an inevitable part of living. What many people don't realize, however, is that most of them can be overcome using a simple, focused program of personal brainstorming and creativity !
I will give two nice quotes I found somewhere.
"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."Warren G. Bennis
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."Joseph Chilton Pierce
Please refer to
Steven harnard for more on creativity. this is what he has to say.
CREATIVITY Creativity may be a trait, a state or just a process defined by its products. It can be contrasted with certain cognitive activities that are not ordinarily creative, such as problem-solving, deduction, induction, learning, imitation, trial-and-error, heuristics and "abduction," however, all of these can be done creatively too. There are four kinds of theories, attributing creativity respectively to (1) method, (2) "memory" (innate structure), (3) magic or (4) mutation. These theories variously emphasize the role of an unconscious mind, innate constraints, analogy, aesthetics, anomalies, formal constraints, serendipity, mental analogs, heuristic strategies, improvisatory performance and cumulative collaboration. There is some virtue in each, but the best model is still the one implicit in Pasteur's dictum: "Chance favors the prepared mind." And because the exercise and even the definition of creativity requires constraints, it is unlikely that "creativity training" or an emphasis on freedom in education can play a productive role in this preparation.
