Sunday, 11 September 2011
Group Specific mind map from the quote To Live a Creative Life, We Must Lose Our Fear of Being Wrong – by Joseph Chilton Pearce
from this points, we mad out PowerPoint presentation.
Group Mind Map on General point from the essay
from the quote's
To Live a Creative Life, We Must Lose Our Fear of Being Wrong – by Joseph Chilton Pearce
we have come out with 5 points. they are self-confidence, learn more mistakes, imperfection, references and creative friend. we have agreed that the point of creative friend will be our specific mind map.
Group choose quote : To Live a Creative Life, We Must Lose Our Fear of Being Wrong – by Joseph Chilton Pearce
THE ESSAY
Nowadays, many people want to be an artist’s or behave like an artist but the important point for being an artist is how to be a creative person, because creativity is the most important property for an artist’s others then being smart, be curious, love yourself and etc. Due to live a creative life, a lot of points are existence such as imperfection, have self-confidence, learn from mistake, get some references and find more friends especially creative ones.
The first way to live in a creative life is imperfection. This is one of the points that we have to use it for opposition with fears. Imperfection means try not to be perfect because creativity is not about being perfect. Everyone in this world wants to be perfect but nothing in this world is perfect. Unfortunately, is a human nature that they will try their best to become a perfect person, especially the person that wants to live a creative life. Actually, creativity is not about being perfect, it’s about the things that we like to do. We should do the things that we like not forcing ourselves to do things that we don’t like to do. If we keep forcing our self to do things that we don’t like, its end up to be things that we are not satisfied and not worthy.
Next, having self-confidence is also an important point to live a creative life. For example, if you don’t have self-confidence or you felt easy to give up, it is because lack of confidence within you. You might end up not doing your works. In advance, you will feel afraid and devastated for solving your fears. Lastly, you won’t be able to finish your work because you can’t make a good decision for it. Moreover, without confidence you will feel shy, scared and you will end up not submitting your works. In addition to that you will feel guilty and the work that should be successful end up being a loser. So, try to get your confident because it makes you feel stronger within. Confidence also have limits, we must have self-confidence within but we should know how to it, don’t be to over confidence in life.
The third way is learning from your mistakes. This is the most important and best thing because it plays the biggest role in a creative life. We can learn a lot of things from our mistakes; from there we will get experiences and learn not doing the same mistake again. Besides that, making a mistakes it teach us how to be more motive in life and not keep on learning. Therefore, we won’t make the same mistakes in the further. In life it is good to learn from mistakes that we made because making mistake is not wrong but it’s wrong not to learn form mistakes.
Other than that, find more friends could be useful and helpful to make us be and think creative. For example, if we have a lot of friends, we can share our ideas, let them critics our ideas, and accept their critics. From there we can develop the ideas. Besides that, we also can learn how to change our lifestyle to be more creative and the way we think for solving problems. Therefore, by surrounding with creative people it makes ourselves be more creative. Moreover, it is a good atmosphere in our life for gain a creative lifestyle.
Finally but not last, refer to references. By looking at other people works it don’t mean that we are copping the work, other arties work could be the starting of ideas. From there we can develop it to be come more abstract and manipulate it. Moreover, we also can make new creation from the mean ideas that we have abstract and manipulate it. This is one of the ways to be more innovative in life. Therefore, to live a creative life and to be more in creative think we must refer to references.
In a conclusion, perfection is not one of element for being creative, we should follow all the points given because it will help you and make them part of our experience in life. Imperfection, have self-confidence, learn from our mistake, get some references and find more friends especially creative ones this is five ways to live creative life.
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What is Creativity? Creative Methods,Characteristics of the Creative Person
What is Creativity?
An Ability. A simple definition is that creativity is the ability to imagine or invent something new. As we will see below, creativity is not the ability to create out of nothing (only God can do that), but the ability to generate new ideas by combining, changing, or reapplying existing ideas. Some creative ideas are astonishing and brilliant, while others are just simple, good, practical ideas that no one seems to have thought of yet. Believe it or not, everyone has substantial creative ability. Just look at how creative children are. In adults, creativity has too often been suppressed through education, but it is still there and can be reawakened. Often all that's needed to be creative is to make a commitment to creativity and to take the time for it.An Attitude. Creativity is also an attitude: the ability to accept change and newness, a willingness to play with ideas and possibilities, a flexibility of outlook, the habit of enjoying the good, while looking for ways to improve it. We are socialized into accepting only a small number of permitted or normal things, like chocolate-covered strawberries, for example. The creative person realizes that there are other possibilities, like peanut butter and banana sandwiches, or chocolate-covered prunes.
A Process. Creative people work hard and continually to improve ideas and solutions, by making gradual alterations and refinements to their works. Contrary to the mythology surrounding creativity, very, very few works of creative excellence are produced with a single stroke of brilliance or in a frenzy of rapid activity. Much closer to the real truth are the stories of companies who had to take the invention away from the inventor in order to market it because the inventor would have kept on tweaking it and fiddling with it, always trying to make it a little better.
The creative person knows that there is always room for improvement.
Creative Methods
Several methods have been identified for producing creative results. Here are the five classic ones: Evolution. This is the method of incremental improvement. New ideas stem from other ideas, new solutions from previous ones, the new ones slightly improved over the old ones. Many of the very sophisticated things we enjoy today developed through a long period of constant incrementation. Making something a little better here, a little better there gradually makes it something a lot better--even entirely different from the original.For example, look at the history of the automobile or any product of technological progress. With each new model, improvements are made. Each new model builds upon the collective creativity of previous models, so that over time, improvements in economy, comfort, and durability take place. Here the creativity lies in the refinement, the step-by-step improvement, rather than in something completely new. Another example would be the improvement of the common wood screw by what are now commonly called drywall screws. They have sharper threads which are angled more steeply for faster penetration and better holding. The points are self tapping. The shanks are now threaded all the way up on lengths up to two inches. The screws are so much better that they can often be driven in without pilot holes, using a power drill.
The evolutionary method of creativity also reminds us of that critical principle: Every problem that has been solved can be solved again in a better way. Creative thinkers do not subscribe to the idea that once a problem has been solved, it can be forgotten, or to the notion that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." A creative thinker's philosophy is that "there is no such thing as an insignificant improvement."
Synthesis. With this method, two or more existing ideas are combined into a third, new idea. Combining the ideas of a magazine and an audio tape gives the idea of a magazine you can listen to, one useful for blind people or freeway commuters.
For example, someone noticed that a lot of people on dates went first to dinner and then to the theater. Why not combine these two events into one? Thus, the dinner theater, where people go first to eat and then to see a play or other entertainment.
Revolution. Sometimes the best new idea is a completely different one, an marked change from the previous ones. While an evolutionary improvement philosophy might cause a professor to ask, "How can I make my lectures better and better?" a revolutionary idea might be, "Why not stop lecturing and have the students teach each other, working as teams or presenting reports?"
For example, the evolutionary technology in fighting termites eating away at houses has been to develop safer and faster pesticides and gasses to kill them. A somewhat revolutionary change has been to abandon gasses altogether in favor of liquid nitrogen, which freezes them to death or microwaves, which bake them. A truly revolutionary creative idea would be to ask, "How can we prevent them from eating houses in the first place?" A new termite bait that is placed in the ground in a perimeter around a house provides one answer to this question.
Reapplication. Look at something old in a new way. Go beyond labels. Unfixate, remove prejudices, expectations and assumptions and discover how something can be reapplied. One creative person might go to the junkyard and see art in an old model T transmission. He paints it up and puts it in his living room. Another creative person might see in the same transmission the necessary gears for a multi-speed hot walker for his horse. He hooks it to some poles and a motor and puts it in his corral. The key is to see beyond the previous or stated applications for some idea, solution, or thing and to see what other application is possible.
For example, a paperclip can be used as a tiny screwdriver if filed down; paint can be used as a kind of glue to prevent screws from loosening in machinery; dishwashing detergents can be used to remove the DNA from bacteria in a lab; general purpose spray cleaners can be used to kill ants.
Changing Direction. Many creative breakthroughs occur when attention is shifted from one angle of a problem to another. This is sometimes called creative insight.
A classic example is that of the highway department trying to keep kids from skateboarding in a concrete-lined drainage ditch. The highway department put up a fence to keep the kids out; the kids went around it. The department then put up a longer fence; the kids cut a hole in it. The department then put up a stronger fence; it, too, was cut. The department then put a threatening sign on the fence; it was ignored. Finally, someone decided to change direction, and asked, "What really is the problem here? It's not that the kids keep getting through the barrier, but that they want to skateboard in the ditch. So how can we keep them from skateboarding in the ditch?" The solution was to remove their desire by pouring some concrete in the bottom of the ditch to remove the smooth curve. The sharp angle created by the concrete made skateboarding impossible and the activity stopped. No more skateboarding problems, no more fence problems.
This example reveals a critical truth in problem solving: the goal is to solve the problem, not to implement a particular solution. When one solution path is not working, shift to another. There is no commitment to a particular path, only to a particular goal. Path fixation can sometimes be a problem for those who do not understand this; they become overcommitted to a path that does not work and only frustration results.
Characteristics of the Creative Person
- curious
- seeks problems
- enjoys challenge
- optimistic
- able to suspend judgment
- comfortable with imagination
- sees problems as opportunities
- sees problems as interesting
- problems are emotionally acceptable
- challenges assumptions
- doesn't give up easily: perseveres, works hard
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