And you thought being creative was to become a painter or a writer or a poet...
30th June ,2007
What does creativity mean to you? Does it mean being a painter, a writer or a poet having tremendous god given gift to become creative? Think again and read on...
Let’s start by defining what being creative is and before you read on, I would like you to think for a moment how you would
define creativity?
Being creative means to create something that does not exists. What you create is entirely up to you, it could be a solution
or a method or an idea that you could work upon in your personal or professional life.
If you think that being creative is for people in art and you happen to be working for big corporations then you may decide
that increased creativity is not important for you. But creativity is something far broader than artistic expression and is
required in many aspects of life.
If you still think that being creative is for artists, painters, musicians and others who directly belong to any form of
Arts, then you need to think again. Don’t CEOs and people at various levels in the organization require creativity to
conceptualize a new product or create a new idea to sell their product to the market?
They are all working on problems and devising solutions that didn’t exist before. These people are using their minds to
imagine fresh ways of doing something, putting together existing forms and ideas in new ways.
They may be creating a new idea, a new look, a new product, or new technique. Sometimes the ability to be more creative can
lead to personal fame and fortune; sometimes it just provides a deep sense of personal satisfaction.
Can we improve creativity? Yes, of course we can. Read on to find out how.
