CREATIVE PROCESS

Creative Process

Creative Process

Creativity is seeing the same thing as everybody else but thinking of something different. Most people are creative to various extents. It is just that some people act on their ideas while others ignore them. Inventors and artists take action on their ideas. How many people have said "I could have done that". The response to that is "Well, why didn't you?" After reading "A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD" two interesting points stood alone. The fact that we are all creative only at different levels and that creativity can be learned.

Creative Process

The word “creativity” in the Latin language means to beget, to form, to create. Creativity must be present in all modes of activity (Landau, 2002; Hibnere, 1998). A creative process anticipates the creation of a new product that heavily depends, on the one hand, on the uniqueness of a person, but, on the other hand, is conditioned by the material itself, happenings, people and circumstances of life.

The most important aspects of creativity are novelty, originality, fluency and flexibility (Rogers, 1994; Hibnere, 1998; Nickerson, 1999; Csikszentmihaly, 1999; Ruttan, 1999; Stenberg and Lubart, 1999; Landau, 2002; Vygotsky, 1991; Osho, 2002). As Osho (2002) acknowledged, if one wants to be creative, one should get rid of any conditionality; otherwise creativity will be nothing more than copying.

Creativity develops when a personality is given full freedom to express thoughts and feelings. A creative personality can dare to engage in ambiguous situations irrespective of fear, can search for new ways, and can find new aspects in something that is familiar and congenial and thereby create new emotional experiences. Each of us possesses these abilities to a higher or a lesser degree, but not each of us dares realize them because of a fear of failure or a possibility to remain unaccepted in society (Mey, 1995; Landau, 2002).

This means a creative process presupposes the capability to take risks, the readiness to overcome obstacles, inner motivations, and the readiness to express strong disagreement with the opinion of others. Independent habit of mind, free from stereotypes and external influence is essential for creativity.

That is why a creative person always wants to do something wrongly. One will never be creative if one gets ahead along the right way. This is because the others had already discovered the right way (Osho, 2002). A creative person independently raises problems and solves them autonomously in the course of creative activity (Vishnyakova, 1995; Druzhinin, 1999; Osho, 2002;Tiyrin, 2001).

So creativity is the greatest rebellion. It is one of the most natural forms of the realization of needs, an optimum form of the search (Rotenberg, 1999). Scientists started to seek common features of all kinds of creative processes as a result of attempts to develop a general theory of creativity (Izard, 2000; Landau, 2002; Fontana, 1988; Volkov, 1999; Rozet, 1999; Gardener, 1994; Lubart, 1999).

Theoretical and empirical investigations allow us to ascertain that the development of a creative process proceeds through several stages that are closely ...