Comments on: Creativity is a Skill

By: Innovation Catalyst

Innovation Catalyst — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:27:13 +0000

Sorry I missed this the first time around. I blog about creativity frequently. There is a difference between your LEVEL of creativity and your creative STYLE. STYLE can be visualized as a point between two opposite poles - doing BETTER, and doing DIFFERENT. Google 'Kirton KAI' and you'll learn quite a bit about creative style. Creative STYLE is innate. Creative SKILLS can be learned. There are many books on the subject. One of the great ones is "Thinkertoys" by Michael Michalko.

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By: Teresa Caldwell

Teresa Caldwell — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:52:29 +0000

I don't know if creativity can be taught. All I know is that the creativity and artistic ability that me and my kids have we were born with. I believe in genetic memory. My Mother was very artistic and creative, since she was she may have fed our creativitiy as children by giving us crayolas and a blank piece of paper as we also watched her create her works of art. I let my children have paints and t-shirts to paint on when they were young instead of sitting them in front of a television set to keep them occupied. I think it you are born with it, but sometimes it has to be encouraged and also freedom of expression is so important. To stiffle someones creativity, because they may make a mess while creating is Bull Sh*t. Freedom enhances creativity. Let them be and express who they are. In one of my children, his creativity is through working on vehicles and and audio systems. Give them the freedom and opportunities and they will excell.....

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By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:30:45 +0000

It all depends on how you can free your mind to look at things. If you have it locked up, you can not be creative. If you dare to release it, you get very creative.

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By: Craig Dewe

Craig Dewe — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:36:14 +0000

Down with routine, stability, logic, reason and control! Up with randomness and lack of control...unless it involves a bladder. So do you have any exercises people have used to stimulate creativity latter in life when they thought it was already beaten out of them?

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