Creativity

Quite understandably, there would be very few takers, for a question about how to ‘develop’ this creativity!
With the ‘head hunters’ putting up a huge price-tag for such creative people, looking out for that ‘out of box’ thinkers, asking mind-boggling questions to find out ‘lateral-thinking’ minds, average people would obviously feel it safer to shy away from the limelight when it comes to creativity.
That is where an ancient civilization happens to ‘score’, when the bulk of the people of those ancient times settled for nothing less than the ‘creator’ Himself! Spirituality, while it leads us towards that, can the mysticism about that ‘creativity’ remain elusive for too long!

Psn(22nd December, 2010)


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How to be very creative n develop our creativity?

My answer:
Creativity is very basic, fundamental, and perhaps, simple too (simple, only if we allow it to remain simple! It is not easy, because our judgmental mind hurries to pre-conclude about almost anything and everything, using its logic, and memory of past judgments! Otherwise, life abounds with scope for creativity. Creat-ures are creations. Nature does the job. We are ever welcome to participate, using our intelligence, and self awareness, to do something beyond nature! The day somebody decided to something more than just helplessly looking at a river flooding and taking away innocent lives, creativity took place, and check-dams were built!)

The problem is also perhaps, with our wide ranging and far reaching definition about 'creativity' that is thrust upon us by the situation. An example of any 'creative' person seems too difficult to 'copy'. Unless people around us 'recognize' that we are creative, we ourselves are not really convinced that we too can be creative! But it is as simple as contributing to any life positive effort. A doctor saves the life of a patient, and the doctor is creative. That life saved is almost same as a life created afresh! As we keep doing things with a 'fresh' mind, using reference to memory only when needed and at our will, this creativity of ours would evolve, and then we would start discovering new ways of doing things (without that needless interruption by mind/memory that 'this is the only way it can be done', etc). Even the possibility of inventions would open up. Many inventions, or discoveries might have been lost without that adequate 'notice', when the person does not 'seek' publicity, or when that person lacks communication skills, or does not look for any recognition