Another year, another attempt at producing something resembling a half decent blog. To all my regular readers (if I have any lol) sorry it’s been so long since my last post.
Now on with the task at hand.
Creativity
What is it? How do you get it? What do you do with it? Why am I asking these questions when there’s no clear answer to any of them?
“The process of having original ideas that have value”
Ken Robinson
“The quality or ability to create or invent something; originality”
Wiktionary Definition
I tried googling the word “creativity” to see what I got despite the fact that I imagine pretty much everyone else doing the task will have had the same idea. I first looked at Google images and to be honest the images it came up with were pretty unremarkable and disappointing.
I then went onto the normal search. There were improve your business and/or workforce websites, a few others detailing ways to help improve your own creativity or encourage your child’s. I did find a website that was mildly interesting:
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_creativity.html
creativity-online.com at first glance looked like it would provide some nice material on the subject but wouldn’t you know it most of what I found in it seemed to be adverts. All the things that looked like they’d be a bit more on topic required me to subscribe and most articles were going to cost money to view (they charge you if a post is more than 7 days old) so frankly I couldn’t be bothered.
For the past few weeks iv been watching bits and pieces from the TED talks (http://www.ted.com/index.php/) which is where the Ken Robinson Talk we saw a little while ago came from (here it is for anyone that might want to see it http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66).
When I first found this website and the Ken Robinson talk for our week 20 task of last year the website wasn’t nearly as well structured. They have now revamped it and it’s much easier to find things of interest so I highly recommend just browsing through the videos for something of interest (I think there are somewhere near 200 videos so there should be something for everyone and they seem to update it with new ones relatively often).
What is my definition of creativity?.....
I don’t know…to put it simply. My definition is constantly changing as I read other peoples definitions and look at things that are considered creative. At the moment it might be something along the lines of “An individual’s ability to achieve, attain or create something original from anything or nothing”.
Damn it I need to learn how to produce a decent blog (among other things).
Sorry its so late Mr P. I wrote this a while ago and forgot to post it.
