Creativity Questions

1. What do you understand by ‘creativity’ and to what extent have you been creative?
2. How have you tried to facilitate and encourage your own creativity?
3. Did you experience limits/blocks on your own creativity?
4. How easy/difficult was it to be creative while still working to the brief?
5. Did working within conventions stifle your creativity?
6. To what extent did you need to work with others and ‘bounce ideas’ off other people to be truly creative?
7. How much of your creativity was about trying to picture things in your mind’s eye?
8. How much of your creativity was about trial and error?
9. To what extent was a lack of confidence an issue in terms of your creativity?
10. To what extent was a lack of technical competence/confidence an obstacle to your creativity?

Csikszentmihalyi

Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi pronounced  CHEEK-sent-me-hi-ee  is a Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States. He is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity. Csikszentmihalyi says the creative process normally takes five steps (Creativity, 1996, p.79):

1. Preparation - becoming immersed in problematic issues that are interesting and arouses curiosity.
2. Incubation - ideas churn around below the threshold of consciousness.
3. Insight - the "Aha!" moment when the puzzle starts to fall together.
4. Evaluation - deciding if the insight is valuable and worth pursuing.
5. Elaboration - translating the insight into its final work.

Spontaneity takes practice Csikszentmihalyi says that it typically takes someone 10 years of acquiring technical knowledge by immersing themselves in a discipline before they create anything significant.

Creativity Quotes

Creativity involves thinking or behaving imaginatively . The imaginative activity is purposeful – set against or defined by a meaningful objective. The processes must generate something original. Paul
Roberts (2006)
                                         

David Gauntlett has written extensively about creativity and the idea is that “making is connecting”. His main argument is that “through making things, and sharing them with others, we feel a greater connection with the world, and more engaged with being more active in the environment rather than sitting back and watching.” (2003)

Malcolm Gladwell makes a similar argument in his new book, Outliers – according to Gladwell, the magic number is 10,000 hours of practice.

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/03/15-famous-quotes-on-creativity/ 15 Quotes on Creativity