Creativity

Defining Creativity and Innovation

Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity is characterised by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing.

“Creativity is a combinatorial force: it’s our ability to tap into our ‘inner’ pool of resources – knowledge, insight, information, inspiration and all the fragments populating our minds – that we’ve accumulated over the years just by being present and alive and awake to the world and to combine them in extraordinary new ways.” — Maria Popova, Brainpickings

“Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.” – Rollo May, The Courage to Create

 

Creativity is thought to be related to the concept of which thinking? CTET 2018 
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             Convergent thinking is the type of thinking we do when solving a well-defined, straightforward, correct answer to a problem. Convergent thinking is used when there is a simple, correct answer to a question. For example, what's the capital of England? The answer is London. If you knew the answer, you used convergent thinking.

In contrast, divergent thinking is the type of thinking we do when solving an abstract or new problem that has many possible answers, solutions, or outcomes. Remember the beginning of this lesson when you thought about how to make a structure to protect an egg from breaking? There are many possible structures you could make, so coming up with that solution required creativity, or divergent thinking. When you write a poem or story you have an endless supply of possible characters, words to use, and themes or events that might happen, so this creative process requires divergent thinking.

Creativity is not relevant to convergent thinking because you don't have to be creative to know the answer to this problem