There is a common tendency to identify creativity with an art form, to understand it as a form of artistic expression, innovative, surprising or discordant, but creativity is much more than that. In this article we will see the importance of creativity in personal development, the importance it has for the individual in society.
Creativity is no longer seen as something belonging to artists and musicians, it is a crucial skill for professionals in all fields that goes beyond production or innovative action, creativity is linked to the personal development of the individual.
- Creativity in personal development combines the experience and information acquired abroad.
- So a unique individual is born.
- With a way of being independent.
- An individual who must find himself.
- In its purest form.
- To create.
- Innovate and provide solutions not only to complex problems.
- But also to personal problems.
“Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they do. Creativity gives hope that there may be a valid idea. Creativity offers everyone the opportunity to achieve a kind of realization. Does creativity make life more fun and interesting?. – Edward de Bono
With creativity in personal development something similar happens to what happens with intelligence, it is a quality that manifests itself differently in each person, quality that can also be improved.
However, from an early age, we are labeled more or less creative (or un creative) because of our “artistic” in disciplines such as painting or drawing, writing, music and dance, or other skills.
As we age, other qualities (such as style for dressing or decorating an environment, the ability to design or propose innovative ideas) are also taken into account when labeling and differentiating creations from those that are not.
There is no doubt that creativity is an important feature of the human being, one of the most important indeed; In addition, creativity is a trait that we all possess, being one of the main aspects that make our success as individuals and as a species.
It’s amazing how easy it is to get people who think they don’t have creativity to do innovative and creative work using the right techniques.
In fact, whether an idea or production is creative depends on the environment. In this sense, American neurologist Alice Flaherty says in her book The Midnight Disease that “a creative idea will simply be defined as something new and useful (or influential) in a particular social environment. “
According to Flaherty, this applies to business, computer science, science and mathematics, and what we generally consider “creative” fields (fiction, art, or theater).
Creativity can be understood in personal development as the ability to create, manufacture or produce, but it is very vague.
We said at first that creativity combines experience itself with information acquired from abroad, but making or producing does not necessarily imply the result of combining personal experience with external information, in most cases we create or do so by combining external information with external information. experience It’s not creativity. Creativity needs a more independent and individual approach.
In addition, creativity is not only used to create new things, creativity is the basis of problem solving, many problems cannot be solved using existing structures and rules, using formulas that offer mechanical solutions, so creativity needs space to develop itself.
To solve problems and take advantage of opportunities you have to think creatively and find useful and original ideas, so creativity, from the point of view of personal development, gives rise to people able to think for themselves, who can create, instead of producing or reproducing People who benefit from the special, who know how to take advantage of their experiences , values and ideas.