What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
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What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
In fact the creative person was by definition one who put their open-mindedness to work. “The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself,” Barron explained, “but courts it as the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.”42 The creative person, he wrote, is one who solves “problems external to himself” and “creates h
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The artist, in other words, was a model of creativity, and the benefit of the artistic way of being was not art itself but something else. There was something paradoxical about this: It held art apart from the ordinary, the commercial, the technological. Yet it promoted art not for its own sake—that is, say, for the production of aesthetic objects—
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“By the time I reached adulthood I was pretty sure I was creative, and I considered this a good thing. I grew up in the 1980s in a milieu in which creativity was encouraged. My parents signed me up for pottery and music lessons and something called Odyssey of the Mind, where kids competed against students from other schools in skits and in quickly
... See moreTo create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of thought, feeling, action, and reaction that arise within us, and to put these together in a unique response, expression, or message that carries moment, passion, and meaning.