What is it to be creative?
In my mind, to be creative is to
naturally be able to
think outside the box and find a different path, that to at least you, makes some sort of sense. It should just click. If it doesn't come to you, but instead you must think for some time of
ideas that seem
weird or new, you have
ingenuity and just wish you were creative. Creativity and "
giftedness" are actually
learning disabilities.
Why do people want to be creative?
I really don't know. If I had to guess I would say they think it is something
special and want
attention. The creative
mind is hard to understand, and
students and
workers alike may find it ward to describe
concepts to others that are not on their same plain of though. While they may seem wrong to everyone else, in their mind they are right. In many cases, when you tell a creative
person why they are wrong, they will think "that's what I just said!!!". People who
try too hard often say things that make no
sense to them but are in some way related to the subject. Some people find that they must tell people that they are creative as if it were a title of
honor, but, in
my reality at least, it is a pain to try to decode the rest of the
world.
What do I do to understand or help a creative person?
A great start to understanding a creative person would be to ask them to rephrase,
simplify, or give the
logic behind what they said, wrote, or did. Think about what they are saying. You might have to draw a
mental picture or think about an object from another
perspective. Creative people are
stubborn like this, they can't just right out tell you what they are thinking in words you would understand, but then again they might not understand how you would think of it.
"Think outside the box."
Normal:
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# YOU ARE # The good stuff is here
# HERE #
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Creative:
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# THINK # You are here
# YOU ARE # You want to be here
# HERE # You leave so you can get here
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You end somewhere entirely different, perhaps over there