“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

a quote by Albert Einstein.

because creativity is generated from experiences and things that the person have gone through, and sometimes inspired by other people's work, so if u manage to use that persons idea, change it and get it out of its old identity to not be recognized as the other person's work, then it would be your original work.


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Defining creativity - Reflection on lesson learned

Last week in creative studies class, our lecturer has shared an inspirational story with us, it was about this girl who had an unusual behavior which almost was going to cost her career and dream. In the end, her unusual behavior was the reason for her to be a famous ballet dancer. The stories highlights several points, the main thing is that creativity different in the sense that a creative person’s behavior is naturally out of the familiar behavior of normal people. It’s not that creativity can’t be initiated in normal people, but as we can see, there are those who are born with it and those who work to get it. I am not about to scale the norm of the creativity in a person, I think both can be just as good, im pointing out to the society’s point of view towards each category of people. As we can see those who are born with creativity instinct inside of them, who might be a little different than their pears might suffer from rejections or attempts to fix that different part of them to make them like everyone else. On the other hand, those who worked to be creative, and are normal people like everyone don’t seem to suffer from that kind of obstacle. It’s quite interesting how societies fear the unknown and instead of trying to understand it and maybe benefit from it, they take it through already existing procedures or whatever that is in the society to bring it back to normal.

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Defining creativity

First point I’d like to discuss is education VS. creativity. Is education really the main thing behind “killing creativity” or are there other things that are doing a better job at that!!

Societies seem to be drawing borders around itself to limit what’s usual and normal according to how familiar it is to the majority’s experiences. Therefore, creativity in the definition of unusual, unique, different and not familiar is rejected and categorized as an abnormal behavior or thinking of the person.

Besides the theory stated in the video I think that in addition to education, what kills creativity is the fear of being rejected by the society. If a person’s creativity survives the brutal attacks of the education system that might kill it slowly, it faces another obstacle which is facing the societies. It’s only a matter of time before a society embraces the efforts of a creative person and his\her works amongst them, but the question is whether some people can bare the false judgments, and fight through it to get that acceptance with the achievement that can please their society

I do agree with the theory that states that education is killing creativity and innovation inside of us. However I think I’d put the factor of “judgmental society” or fear of the unknown as the main one, societies lead us to our future and societies build our education system.

On another secondary point that was mentioned in the video is how far to the future is education taking us. Which raises another point that is how Compatible education in all countries. How far are we behind?

I think education is a continuing process, it does not stop after school or university and for sure it does not stop after having a job. At some point it becomes the individual’s obligation towards him/herself to be up-to-date with the worlds developing technologies and new educations and not to fall behind.

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introduction to creative studies

without over looking the fact that creativity could be acquired by training and working to have the vision of an artist\ inventor or whatever it is that makes us or our thoughts unique and creative. it's mostly natural talent, inner instinct and to emotionally melt in with the surroundings that makes a creative thought or idea.

creativity is in one definition known to be an expression of the inner self, it could be our thoughts, our feelings, experiences that had left footprints in our heads. It's a vision of dreams and imagination as well, wishes and hopes. it's to put out all that's mentioned in a very different and unique way. to come up with new things or to express the things that we have in a new way that is not familiar, yet mind blowing.

That is only one way to think of creativity, by the time we finish this subject, i'm quiet sure we will learn how to observe and think of things differently, that one thing could be many, that there isn't a rule to tell us how to think.

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