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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”~ Charles Mingus.
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What is creativity?
Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new (a product, a solution, a work of art etc.) which 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.
Scholarly interest in creativity ranges widely: the relationship between creativity and general intelligence; the mental and neurological processes associated with creative activity; personality type and creative ability; creativity and mental health; creativity in education; and ways of fostering creativity through training and technology.
Aspect of Creativity
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. 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
place considers the best circumstances in which creativity flourishes, including degrees of autonomy, access to resources and the nature of gatekeepers.