“Seeing what nobody else sees…”
-Michalko, 2006
In my opinion, it is just to define creativity within its context. Because I always believed that creativity is defined not by logic or rationalization; it is defined by creativity, itself.
That is why I appreciate different definitions of this powerful word coming from different “creative” people, especially the one presented above. Creativity was defined by using a verb normally used to support movement of our eyes. If you’ll read it and understood it literally, you will conclude within yourself that this statement probably describes a mad or crazy person. But if you use your creativity in this statement, you will find yourself having a certain understanding to where this statement is addressed and eventually find out that how you understand this statement would most probably be different to others as well.
I don’t want to highlight the technical parts of our creativity lecture. I just want to emphasize the “creativity” within “creativity”.
“CREATE to INNOVATE”
-Simon Majaro, 1988
You sometimes confuse yourself between the two but honestly, Creativity occurs before Innovation. You generate ideas to be applied on to something. You compose to write a book. You imagine to make a film. You mix colors to paint a mural. You gather things to invent. You Create to Innovate.
“Mandala of Japanese Creativity”
-Tatsuno, 1990
Last meeting, this topic interested me the most. Their process in innovation through creativity is what I really believed a creativity process should be. A lot of years have passed, a lot of inventions had already seen and even though you have something new in your hands, you are unaware of the similarities you may have with the rest of the world. Generating Ideas is a very practical way in creating something but every time we generate ideas, we should give credits to past innovations where sometimes limits us in producing new concepts. That is why Idea Recycling should be the first step in the Creative process. Giving recognition to used ideas and making them valuable in forming new ideas is better creativity, if you’ll ask me.
“CREATIVITY within CREATIVITY”
-Anonymous
After this topic was discussed, I honestly had a different view on creativity, especially in associating the word creativity to a person, place or thing.
For me, CREATIVITY cannot be defined by other terms. CREATIVITY can be defined by itself.
