Telling people how to be creative is easy, its only being it thats difficult. It is futile for me to talk about creativity, because it simply cannot be explained, like Mozarts music, or Van Goghs painting, it is literally inexplicable. Most of the best research on creativity was done in the 60s and 70s, with a quite dramatic drop off in quantity after then, largely due to the fact that researchers began to feel that they had reached their limits of what science could discover about it. In fact, the only thing from the research that I can tell you about how to be creative, is the sort of childhood that you should have had, which is of limited help to you in this part of your life. However, there is one negative thing, that I can say, and it is negative because its easier to say what creativity isnt. A bit like the sculptor, when asked how he had sculpted a very fine elephant, explained that he had taken a big block of marble, and then knocked away all the bits that didnt look like an elephant. Creativity is not a talent; It is a way of operating. Creativity is not an ability that you either have, or do not have, and it is absolutely unrelated to IQ. Studies have shown, that those regarded by their peers as most creative, were in no way, whatsoever different in IQ from their less creative colleagues. So, in what way were they different? The most creative had simply acquired a natural effortlessness to get themselves into a particular mood, a way of operating, which allowed their natural creativity to function. This particular natural effortlessness has been described as an ability to play. Indeed the most creative, when in this mood, are childlike. For they are able to play with ideas, to explore them, not for any immediate practical purpose, but just for pure enjoyment. Play, for its own sake. -John Cleese
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 20:46:27 +0000
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