CREATIVITY. Where do you put that idea?
Is creativity a painting? A sculpture? A song? A piece of music, art or literature? A mathematical equation? A sunset? Is it something you can “do”?
In about two seconds I’m going to write in bold type, the name of an object commonly known to people around the world. When you read the word, immediately you may notice your mind pulls up a picture of this object.
Ready?
Tree.
Did you get the picture?
Of course you did.
And whatever “picture” your mind pulled up is the picture that for you, is a way to identify all trees everywhere. It is identification of the concept of “tree”.
Trees do not all look like the one you saw in your mind when you read the word “tree”. But still, your mind instantly created an association and you understood — and through the word tree – even though we’re seeing two different things, we can have a conversation about trees.
It isn’t necessary for you and I to have the exact same picture of a tree to communicate effectively about trees as long as there is in both of us a way to understand what “tree” is.
Now, you might call this quick and dirty process that mind’s use to navigate a 3D world, “creative”.
It’s actually not.
Action always precedes the realization of a phenomena.
The identified mind is the action. It moves quickly and usually without being noticed.
QUESTIONING whatever is identified by the mind is what opens up the possibility of realization.
And waiting a fraction longer than usual and asking, “Is this identification that mind came up with really true?” is where true creativity can occur.
Mind identifies someone we like and someone else we don’t. Mind identifies someone we think doesn’t like us and emotions are produced. We don’t choose the emotions; they’re instant and come from having a thought!
So what’s happening when you question a thought is this: you’re making the activity that usually happens instantly… conscious.
Let’s ask the question again, “What happens internally when you hear the word CREATIVITY?”
This word is identified completely differently for different people. And so the difficulty of figuring out how to become a truly creative human being is often left up in the air. The mind cannot nail it down in the usual way because “creativity” is not a thing.
In the video included below, the conversation is obviously aimed at the educational systems but there’s a much deeper wave that applies to day-to-day living as well.
This talk by Sir Ken Robinson is entertaining, engaging and certainly thought provoking. I hope you enjoy it. And I hope you’ll share your thoughts in the COMMENTS area.
Lovingly,
Andi Mac
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What a delightful being!
Watching the video took me to a place in my past where I recieved the beautiful gift of a different perspective.
I had always wanted to be an artist but whenever I would try to draw it looked like the drawing of a 6 year old. I guess that would be the time when it was squashed out of my knowing.
In my mid 20’s I happened to be in a setting with a group of people and in conversation with one of them … I found out she was an art teacher. My response was oh I wish I had the talent to be an artist …. but I just cannot draw. Her response …”Everybody Is An Artist”.
So she proceded to show me just a couple of skill sets and offered me the tools. From that point I was off and within a 2 week period of time I ended up drawing pictures that amazed me.
She offered me a beautiful gift that day, one that I have continued to “re-member” for it has helped me to unearth the many treasures inside the realm of imagination.
kat