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To me creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. A reality that everyone can see and touch and feel it. To be creative, first thing that we should be aware of is Thinking. Thinking to create new ideas and then try to convert those ideas into reality. In the other hand, creativity involves two steps which are thinking and producing. If someone has a new Idea but do not act on them he/she is not considered as a creative person but rather he/she is an imaginative person.
There are some ways to become a creative person, if you just sit at home all day along and try to be creative I’m sure it will never happen…. some of required and most important aspect to be someone creative are as follow:
1) Making new connections: By reading books, improving the art of observations, using analogies to link things together, work on different projects at the same time, watching movie, try to bring changes in any way in life…
2) Expect the unexpected: Learn from failures.Recover from failures.Avoid too much to your own ideas.Be willing to recognize and admit mistakes your mistakes.
3) Be persistent:Focus on key problems. Be systematic and keep records.Confirm early, disconfirm late.Concentrate tenaciously on a subject.
4) Get excited:Pursue projects that are fun.Play with ideas and things.Ask interesting questions.
Take risks. Have a devotion for truth and a passion for reputation.Have an inclination toward originality and a taste for research.Have a desire for the gratification of discovery.Have a strong desire to comprehend.Never do anything that bores you
Take risks. Have a devotion for truth and a passion for reputation.Have an inclination toward originality and a taste for research.Have a desire for the gratification of discovery.Have a strong desire to comprehend.Never do anything that bores you
5. Be sociable:Find smart collaborators.Organize good teams.Study how others are successful.Listen to people with experience.Foster different cognitive styles.Communicate your work to others.Marry for psychological compatibility.Tell close colleagues everything you know.
Communicate research results effectively.Learn from winners. Have people to fall back on when you get into trouble.
Communicate research results effectively.Learn from winners. Have people to fall back on when you get into trouble.
6. Use the world:Find rich environments.Build instruments. Seek inspiration in nature. Have good laboratory facilities and use them.Observe and reflect intensely.Perform experiments that rigorously test hypotheses.
Also Brainstorming is a common way that gives u a chance to test yourself and the level of your creativity. For example: you share a problem with a group of friends and everyone tries to come up with a new creative solution. And once the solution is out, you can try to change it again in any way using your logic and creative mind!
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Hossein Golestani(1102703292)
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Creativity vs Thinking
Creative is an adjective for things demonstrating creativity.
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Creativity
· Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new (a product, a solution, a work of art, a novel, a joke, etc.) that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. What counts as "valuable" is similarly defined in a variety of ways.
· Theories of creativity (in particular investigating why some people are more creative than others) have focused on a variety of aspects. The most dominant are usually identified as the four "Ps" - process, product, person and place.[5] A focus on process is shown in cognitive approaches that try to describe thought mechanisms and techniques for creative thinking. Theories invoking divergent rather than convergent thinking (such as Guilford), or those describing the staging of the creative process (such as Wallas) are primarily theories of creative process. A focus on creative product usually appears in attempts to measure creativity in people (psychometrics, see below), or in creative ideas framed as successful memes.[6] A focus on the nature of the creative person considers more general intellectual habits, such as openness, levels of ideation, autonomy, expertise,exploratory behaviour and so on. A focus on placeconsiders the best circumstances in which creativity flourishes, including degrees of autonomy, access to resources and the nature of gatekeepers.
`Creativity and Intelligence
· There has been debate in the psychological literature about whether intelligence and creativity are part of the same process (the conjoint hypothesis) or represent distinct mental processes (the disjoint hypothesis). Evidence from attempts to look at correlations between intelligence and creativity from the 1950s onwards, by authors such as Barron, Guilford or Wallach and Kogan, regularly suggested that correlations between these concepts were low enough to justify treating them as distinct concepts.[46]
· Some researchers believe that creativity is the outcome of the same cognitive processes as intelligence, and is only judged as creativity in terms of its consequences, i.e. when the outcome of cognitive processes happens to produce something novel, a view which Perkins has termed the "nothing special" hypothesis.[49]
· An often cited model is what has come to be known as "the threshold hypothesis," proposed by Ellis Paul Torrance, which holds that a high degree of intelligence appears to be anecessary but not sufficient condition for high creativity.[32] That is, while there is a positive correlation between creativity and intelligence, this correlation disappears for IQs above a threshold of around 120. Such a model has found acceptance by many researchers, although it has not gone unchallenged.[50] A study in 1962 by Getzels and Jackson among high school students concluded that high IQ and high creativity tend to be mutually exclusive with a majority of the highest scoring students being either highly creative or highly intelligent, but not both. While this explains the threshold, the exact interaction between creativity and IQ remains unexplained.[51] A 2005 meta-Analysis found only small correlations between IQ and creativity tests and did not support the threshold theory.[52]
· An alternative perspective, Renzulli's three-rings hypothesis, sees giftedness as based on both intelligence and creativity. More on both the threshold hypothesis and Renzulli's work can be found in O'Hara and Sternberg.[49]
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Creativity And Thinking
Creativity has been always connected to the way people think. When you think in a different way from what other people think it's called creativity. Creativity has been defined in many several ways. Creativity is defined as the act of generating solutions to problems requiring the creative process of going beyond previously learned concepts and rules. Creativity contains divergent and convergent thinking to produce new ideas (Crowl et al., 1997). Creativity Its place in the network of higher order thinking skills was well articulated in Pasteur’s observation that “chance favors only the prepared mind” because “only a trained mind can make connections between unrelated events, recognize meaning in a serendipitous event,” and produce a solution that is both novel and suitable (cited in Crowl et al., 1997, pp. 192–193).
Creativity is also defined as something different from intelligence, (Michalko, 1998). “Creativity is often defined as a parallel construct to intelligence, but it differs from intelligence in that it is not restricted to cognitive or intellectual functioning or behavior. Instead, it is concerned with a complex mix of motivational conditions, personality factors, environmental conditions, chance factors, and even products.” (Feldhusen and Goh, 1995)
The research on creative thinking deals with the individual and how the creative process works. There are some articles about corporate creativity such as the one by Keith Sawyer (Sawyer 1999) that explores group creativity involved in improvisational theater. Many of the articles deal with application of creativity in the workplace, and the removal of the barriers that force individuals from being creativity. There are many models presented, involving convergent/divergent thinking, the four P’s: a process, a product, a person and a press. (Rhodes and Brown, quoted by Feldhusen and Goh, 1995), deBono’s Lateral thinking, etc. In order to be creative one of the common themes is letting go of the restrictions that define what is “right” and postulating numerous hypotheses. “Everyone knows that instant judgment is the enemy of creativity,”
Some speak of creativity as the process of discovery. It is more than cognitive functioning. Albert (1990, as quoted in Feldhusen and Goh, 1995) proposes six guiding ideas to “grasp the essence of creativity.”
1. Creativity is expressed through decisions, not products.
2. Knowledge of self and of one’s world is the medium of creative behavior.
3. Creative behavior is highly intentional.
4. Creativeness and personal identity are emergent.
5. #3 and #4 are mutually dependent.
6. Creative behavior engages individuals at the personal level of their identities and abilities
References
Crowl, T. K., Kaminsky, S., & Podell, D. M. (1997). “Educational psychology: Windows on teaching.” Madison, WI: Brown and Benchmark
Feldhusen, J. F. and B. E. Goh (1995). "Assessing and accessing creativity: An integrative review of theory, research, and development." Creativity Research Journal 8(3): 231, 17p.
King, F.J., Goodson, L., Rohani, F. (n.d). “Higher Order Thinking Skills: Definition, Teaching Strategies, Assessment.” Educational Services Program, Center for Advancement of Learning and Assessment. www.cala.fsu.edu
Marrapodi, J., (2003). “Critical Thinking And Creativity: An Overview And Comparison Of The Theories.” A Paper Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements of ED7590 Critical Thinking and Adult Education
Michalko, M. (1998). "Thinking like a genius: Eight strategies used by the supercreative, from Aristotle and Leonardo to Einstein and Edison." The Futurist 32(4): 21.
Sawyer, R. K. (1999). "The emergence of creativity." Philosophical Psychology 12(4): 447
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