You become creative, you are not born. Those who are not born with great natural inventive skills can cultivate them, to become better at imagining and to become creative. As recent studies show, creativity can be developed, it should only be stimulated and trained. A brain is a machine of creativity, you just need to find the best way to stimulate it and train it in the creative process. Imagination, memory, and emotions, here are the cornerstones to being developed to concentrate the process of developing creativity.
Concentration is essential for the creative process
Every day we should reserve time to think, to dream, to imagine, we should allow the brain to metabolize everything that is given to it and to rework it in new forms. Concentration is essential, therefore it becomes essential to switch off mobile phones, computers and all electronic gadgets that are part of our life. Moving away from reality, from social networks and from the overdose of information to which we are subjected daily. To estrange ourselves, perhaps through music, which has always represented a good viaticum to imagine and to get away from reality. We can all be creative, nobody is denied this splendid opportunity, but, as in all things, commitment, concentration, and perseverance are required. Creativity is therefore expressed through the models of the creative process, as well exemplified here.
In a summary of scientific research into creativity, Michael Mumford suggested: “Over the course of the last decade, however, we seem to have reached a general agreement that creativity involves the production of novel, useful products” (Mumford, 2003, p. 110), or, in Robert Sternberg’s words, the production of “something original and worthwhile”. Authors have diverged dramatically in their precise definitions beyond these general commonalities: Peter Meusburger reckons that over a hundred different analyses can be found in the literature. As an illustration, one definition given by Dr. E. Paul Torrance described it as “a process of becoming sensitive to problems, deficiencies, gaps in knowledge, missing elements, disharmonies, and so on; identifying the difficulty; searching for solutions, making guesses, or formulating hypotheses about the deficiencies: testing and retesting these hypotheses and possibly modifying and retesting them; and finally communicating the results.”
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The first necessary dowry for creativity is the imagination, which therefore must be stimulated and not repressed, from childhood. Then you need memory, which helps to understand what is really new and what is not, and for example, allows musicians to play with the notes already heard to invent new combinations. So the emotions are useful, and also the parts of the brain that move the organs if it is to be original in sport, as in acting.
The most important part is definitely inspiration
A simple creative process can start from a few cornerstones: inspiration, processing, and production. There may also be a revision phase, it depends on the creative activity to which one works. The most important part is certainly an inspiration and it is also the one with which most people have the maximum number of problems. Inspiration is everywhere: just look around, just listen to others, just linger with Nature. It can literally be found anytime, anywhere. When least expected, here it comes like a storm in clear skies. Sometimes it is enough to do things that have nothing to do with what we should be producing: watching videos, listening to music, reading a book. Once you get the inspiration, the idea must be left to marinate, breathe, we have to mull over it and elaborate it. It must not be immediately translated into a product, it must be elaborated and reworked mentally, until it becomes so defined as to be real, that it only needs to be translated into a product.
The idea of creativity as a proper and not exclusive mental attitude of human beings was born in recent times, so much so that the word creativity has become a common lexicon only since the 1950s. The mathematician Henri Poincaré defined creativity as the process of joining existing elements with new connections that make the aspect of utility prevail. New and useful are the fundamental concepts to adequately demonstrate the essence of the creative act: the overcoming of existing rules which leads to the creation of a further shared rule because it is useful. This identifies the dimensions of the creative process that unites disorder and order, paradox and method.
So, we are talking about processes that provide for a high degree of subjectivity: in conclusion, there are many methods to stimulate the creative process, but only you are able to recognize what perfectly suits your dynamics.
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