Everyone can be creative, where they realize it or not. A lot of people tend to think creativity is binary: Either you have it, or you don't. But in reality, we do all have it. It's just a matter of how we interpret it.
Being creative has been a defining characteristic of humans since the beginning of time. Our natural predisposition towards creativity can be traced back to prehistoric cave drawings and ancient stories and myths predating even Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
Creativity is not a special gift endowed only upon a lucky few. It is for everyone and it is everywhere. Dr. Michael Kirton, a renowned British psychologist, demonstrated through his research that all of us are born creative in our own ways.
In the U.S., 52% of respondents described themselves as creative, the highest of all the regions. It was significantly higher than France, which was 36 %, and much higher than Japan's 19%.
Many people debate over if creativity is inherited or learned, but it's actually both. Creativity is “technically” inherited, but by everyone. It's more of a common human trait than a gift.
Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. Other soft skills include critical thinking, collaboration, and negotiation. It is a skill because it can be learned. It can also be sucked dry out of people when there is too much emphasis on rote learning and standardization.
Being creative is rare, and most mainstream management practices actually "hinder or inhibit innovation." In fact, you may be more successful if you were less creative.
Your artistic skills might be as heritable as your eye color
Based on all available information, it is very likely that the capacity for creativity is shaped by genetic influences –– it's a complicated way of saying that creativity and artistic interests can almost certainly be inherited.”
Creative people are able to juggle contradictory modes of thought—cognitive and emotional, deliberate and spontaneous. The functions of the imagination network form the core of human experience. Its three main components are personal meaning-making, mental simulation, and perspective taking.
Chris Bennett, CEO of Wonderschool: Creativity is a skill that can be learned and honed, Bennett argues. Students can hone the skill by creating work, presenting it, and getting feedback, he recommends. “Traveling, going outdoors and having conversations about the things you're creating can also enhance creativity.”
Recent findings suggest that the secret to creativity lies in our DNA. "Creativity is related to the connectivity of large-scale brain networks," says Szabolcs Keri of the National Institute of Psychiatry and Addictions in Budapest.
Even without knowing it, we are all artists. Through simple messages on posters, this campaign delivers one main idea – every human is an artist! We're all creative, it's just some of us earn our living by being so. Every human is an artist!
Unfortunately, according to a researcher at the University of William and Mary, U.S., Torrance creativity scores have been steadily declining since the '90s, and we're now in the middle of a “creativity crisis.” Mental health author Michael Easter explains how scientists blame “hurried, over-scheduled lives” and ...
Artists are both born and taught, says Nancy Locke, associate professor of art history at Penn State. "There is no question in my mind that artists are born," says Locke. Many artists arrive in the world brimming with passion and natural creativity and become artists after trying other vocations.
Studies of artists and writers collated in Scientific American confirm that artists and writers are up to 20 times more likely to suffer from bipolar disorder (also called manic depressive illness) and 10 times more likely to suffer from depression.
Below an IQ level of 120, a correlation between IQ and creativity is observed, whereas no correlation is observed at IQ levels above 120. The basic idea of the threshold hypothesis means that high creativity requires high intelligence or above-average intelligence.
According to researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude." Creative people are both introverted and extroverted, but at different times.
Artists Are More Anxious Than People in Other Professions—But They Are Also Better at Coping With Challenges, a New Study Finds. Researchers at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence found that creativity is higher among people with certain psychological traits.
Your ego is the biggest killer of creativity. The struggle tends to become an issue for people in the middle and later years of their career.
Second, the very thinking patterns that define the creative process and help lead to original thinking can have a maladaptive side. For example, creativity requires the inability to suppress irrelevant thoughts and inappropriate ideas. And creative thinkers also tend to have poorer impulse-control.
Unlike the common myth however, creativity is not in our DNA, nor is it a talent that few are born or gifted with. According to a study by Dr. George Land and Dr. Beth Jarman, mostly everyone, that is 98% of people to be exact, are born creative geniuses.
Being creative takes us into the realm of imagination and exploration, and that means our minds aren't always in balance. And that's on purpose. During the creative process, our minds can become unstable or negative, which can be very difficult. Creative thinking is associated with mood swings and depression.
New research by UC Berkeley psychologists suggests that creativity generally tends to decline as we age. Through a series of experiments, it was found that adults resorted to less creative thought processes than children.
Creativity is a muscle – and, just like with your biceps or your quads, if you want your creativity muscle to get bigger and stronger, it needs exercise.