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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