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By Andy Putrello
Creativity is very powerful. Creativity is applied imagination. Creativity is fueled by imagination and is the beginning of everything. Creativity is in all of us. The entire layout of our planet at this instant in time is the result of the collective creativity of every person that has lived before us. If I said to you 1000 years ago “build me a space shuttle everything you need is in the land, seas, and, air” it would have been true. It took the creativity of many people to determine that every metal, ceramic, plastic, gas, and fluid used to build the space shuttle – and everything else on earth – came from the dirt that we stand on everyday, the seas, and the air we breathe. It just took a little creativity to figure out how to extract and use the raw materials.
Nothing is more powerful than creativity. One masterstroke of creativity by one person today could change our world forever – in a positive or negative way. What is creativity? Creativity is not knowledge – it’s different. Creativity can use knowledge to implement the idea derived from creativity but knowledge alone is only a blank canvas waiting for creativity to show itself.
Creativity is not learning it’s knowing. If I were to ask you to memorize a song , for example, you could learn the song and repeat it after listening to it for a given amount of time. Let’s say you are musically inclined and you could listen to a song several times and memorize the words and play the music perfectly. That would still be light years behind what the composer felt when he or she wrote the song. He or she knew the song from start to finish -in some cases instantly – as it flowed from their mind and fingers in one continuous bust of creativity. Emotions translated into a medium you can feel.
If creativity were related to anything it would be curiosity. Sometimes curiosity will cause you to try something that you would not normally try or even seems ridiculous. But you try it because your creative intuition tells you that it may be possible. This act sets a series of thoughts in motion that could result in the creation or discovery of something new. A new product, a new song, a new procedure, a new program, a new logo, a new sales approach, what every it may be.
The act of creating or discovering something new is exciting. One famous physicist named Richard Feynman called it ” the kick in the discovery”. Creativity is part of human nature and what has enabled us – for better or worse- to dominate this planet. Creativity is also contagious. I have personally seen many instances where the creative insight by one person leads to creative insight by another person.
How do you bring out your creative side? To be creative you must become a child again. You must be completely uninhibited and completely willing to reveal yourself inside and out. You must begin to break down all of the artificial barriers that you have accepted and imprisoned yourself within. You must not be afraid to think wildly outside the box and you must know that anything is possible again – just like when you were a child. If you hit a dead end while experiencing a creative burst find a different route to the destination.- that will take you into new territory where you will find the answers. To be creative you have to feel free and not worried about where it may take you. The greatest thing about creativity is that you will surprise yourself when you realize what you are really capable of. You must begin to look at your surroundings as if it were the first time and wonder why and how everything in existence came to be. When you are able to get yourself into a creative mode you will sometimes see things different during that period of time and you will not be able to turn it off. In one hour of creativity you can achieve more than you would otherwise have achieved in months. Creativity lures your mind into extreme focus and that’s when your creativity can really run free. Every thought you have will be crystal clear and within moments your thoughts begin to become reality on the paper or computer in front of you.
Incredible amounts of information become completely clear and in order – sometimes in a fraction of a second.
What do you do when you are having a creative burst? Don’t stop! Cancel all of you plans throw everybody out of your work area (unless it’s a collaboration) and ride it out. Because a true creative burst will yield incredible amounts of information and images in a very short but intense amount of time. Sometimes it will take several weeks to do the technical drawings or plans that were created within our mind in just minutes. You will look back at what you have done and be amazed that it came from within your own mind. But if you are interrupted during a very creative session there is the possibility that the flow will be disturbed and the end result may be less than it would have been otherwise.
Creativity is also addictive, liberating, and empowering. You will know when your imagination and creativity is peaking because what is going on within your mind will be infinitely more exciting and spatially larger than anything going on outside of your mind. Creativity will also give you an incredible amount of satisfaction and a feeling of well being. Not to allow yourself to express your creativity in some way is like keeping a very powerful genie in a bottle. You will never know what is possible until you let it out.
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2013-02-25 22:18:48