SECRETS OF CREATIVITY

IBM's 2010 Global CEO Study, consisting of in-person interviews with over 1,500 CEOs from 60 countries and 33 industries, uncovered that in this current world plagued with increasing complexities, CEOs believe that creativity trumps all other leadership qualities, including rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision. Employees feel similarly, as creativity is regarded as one of the top 3 personality traits most important to career success.

      

“A  great artist is but a conduit for an expression that resonates with something that is greater than him or herself” There are people who target by their creative process with such humility as there is sense that something larger than yourself has worked its way through you. Well-known para-phrase of Khalil Gibran’s notion about children “Creative process or creativity comes through but not from you, though it is with you, it belongs not to you.” When we craft beauty, or woke alive or order inspiration, we are not actually creating something that is there but we are merely transcribing. When we go to play some round of idols, we are seeing the reality through different operating system or filters and seeing the world through different lenses. Creativity is seeing the things the way others can’t see and then share it back with others.

The world has been fascinated by the relationship between creativity and madness. As quoted by anonymous profession artist “In order to use your head, you have to go out of your mind”. This also implies to the willingness to go to unknown places, to go to different landscapes, willingness to step out of your comfort zone, to de-condition ones thinking, one’s reflexive responses to stimuli and to go to other realms of the mind.

An artist brings vision and sovereigns from the ecstatic spaces and places in which they amble. At the end of the day, these artists become depleted because they sacrifice the part of themselves to bring back those visions to create the phase change in the consciousness of the society. They leaves their consensus trends and cultural operating systems to show us different reality tunnels that gives us the sense of perspective. We, as a consumer of art, pay money for them as they take us to the spaces where we cannot go by ourselves. So, these artists are heroes, cultural luminary and mad-man who are somehow able to coax and domesticate their madness.

  

Where creativity comes from has mystified us from centuries. Throughout history we have believed that the creativity was rare and seen in a smaller arena - Professional painters, performers and musicians. For a long time, creativity was an enigma and beyond the reach of the science. But today we know that it takes creativity to solve problems and it is the aspect of human intelligence. We find creativity in architecture, science, engineering and even in nature. Creativity is everywhere and in last few decades there have been dozens of studies exploring it using brain imaging technology. Over 40 different brain areas are involved in creativity and so many professional artist suffering from damage to different brain regions continue to produce art with same level of creativity.

Human spend about 30% of the day in mind engaged in wondering, which helps in being creative. Mind-wondering may also promote the brains ability to restructure a way you look at the problem. Perhaps you can sometimes make connections between two seemingly unrelated things and come up with novel creative solution. Every one of us wonders, then why are all not creative geniuses. To answer the above question biology may play a part too. In one study the families who collectively scored high on musical aptitude on creativity test were more likely to have an extra copy Glucose Mutarotase Gene.

Researchers have also found out that some personality traits like risk-taking and openness to new experiences contribute to the creativity of an individual. Some people have little advantage of biology in creativity, but it can be nurture too and anyone can be creative by practicing your craft, letting your mind wonder and practicing problems through unique ways.

       

                            

The word, "Creativity", in our society has mistakenly been limited to artistic endeavors, but it also encompasses essential parts of everyday life -- divergent thinking, problem solving, and innovation.

Tony, an inventor of the revolutionary mind mapping technique, explains how to have better creative thinking. According to him we must dispel the notion that anyone anywhere in the world cannot be creative as we have a million of brain cells that can integrate. The bridge is still seen around us because many do not know how to use it effectively. It has been discovered that left brain deals with the logic and right brain deals with the imagination. So creativity was thought be to be right brained, but it actually needs logic working with imagination to be creative. Speed of thinking, which is also called fluency, measures how can you generate ideas. It can be developed by playing at it, practice thinking faster, work out some puzzles like chess, suduko, crosswords and many more. The speed and the efficiency or the productivity of the work are the hall mark of the creative genius. We can also play a game called “Alternative uses of different things”.