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S Jeyavelu
Lifelong Creativity
S Jeyavelu
What is Creativity?
Can you name a few creative products/outputs? Take a moment to look into your life and identify a few things you have done creatively.
What is Creativity?
Novel / Unique & Appropriate / Useful
Levels of Creativity
Transformation
Types of Creativity
Essence Creativity
..distilled creativity, the heart made visible.. ..a fresh idea or concept or definition, a novel view point or interpretation or relationship or hypothesis/generalization, fresh wisdom, Gandhis Non-Violence,
Elaborative Creativity
Distinctive elaboration of an idea, view point, principle, law, or issue which is contextually appropriate Epics, poems,
Source: Khandwalla, Lifelong Creativity
Expressive
Creativity
Existential
Creativity
..concerns with effectiveness, creativity, self actualization potential of one own self & enhance human and natural worlds
SriSri RaviShankar, Sadhus, etc
Source: Khandwalla, Lifelong Creativity
Entrepreneurial Creativity
..generation and implementation of novel, appropriate ideas to establish a new venture ..novel prods/services, means of producing them, ways of utilization of resources, markets, resources, use of technology, etc JRD Tata, Ambani
Empowerment Creativity
..concerned with effectiveness, creativity, self actualization potential of others Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak (Sulabh), Muhammad Yunus (Grameen Bank)
Source: Khandwalla, Lifelong Creativity
Personality
Creativity
CPSS
Creative Intelligence
Motivation
Personality
Creativity
CPSS
Creative Intelligence
Motivation
Hunger of Knowing
Curiosity, constant questioning, strong interest in stimulating ideas, theories, and philosophies, always wanting to know the how and why of things, strong interest in trying to understand peoples motives and interests.
Sensitivity
Responsiveness to literature, arts and other fine and delicate things; interest in meeting interesting and sensitive persons; empathy for suffering; responsiveness to beauty and elegance.
Complexity
Intuitively finding correct solutions; being a visionary; having odd, even conflicting ideas, moodiness.
Venturing
Calculated risk taking; preference for starting own ventures; aiming big; striking out on ones own.
Reality Contact
Initiative taking in finding out operating constraints, confidence in managing crisis, quick adjustment to new challenges and information, grip on reality despite fantasying.
Self-sufficiency
Absorbed in challenging tasks; confident in operating in alien situations, tendency to take on tough tasks, persistence in getting ventures accomplished
Source: Adapted from Pradip Khandwalla, 2001 Lifelong Creativity. Tata McGrawhill :NewDelhi
Home Environment
School Environment
Social Environment
Learning/Work Environment
Your Creativity
Diversity of Viewpoints Accountable Freedom Creative Role Models Infrastructure Support by Authority/Boss
Expand your social circle Identify people who are very different from you and interact with them regularly Get involved in activities which enhance your sensitivity Create a circle of friends who push boundaries of the known
Pioneering Innovative, Altruistic & SelfActualization Motive lead to creativity Creative people are weak in safety and status motive Innovators are high in both competence motive and Pioneering Innovative motive
Pioneering Innovative Motive Motivation for Entrepreneurial creativity Art & literature Scientific & technological invention Theoretical work
Altruistic Motive Motivation for empowerment creativity Social change agent Self-Actualization Motive Motivation for existential creativity Sustains in struggle for self actualization in chosen vocation
Check whether your safety and status scores are the top two scores
If yes, identify incidents from your childhood and growing up which influenced you to believe so, write down what happened considering the people, feelings and how you changed because of that incident. Re look at the incident and review your feelings about it
Creative Intelligence
Fluency Flexibility Originality Problem Sensitivity Guessing Causes & Consequences Elaboration Problem Restructuring
Creative Abilities
Problem sensitivity
Can state difficulties or deficiencies in common products or in social institutions, make judgment that desired goals in a described situation have not been achieved.
Can easily state synonyms for a given word Associational fluency Expressional fluency Can easily write well-formed sentences with a specified content.
Ideational fluency
Can easily produce ideas to fulfill certain requirements, for example to name objects that are hard, white and edible, or to write an appropriate title for a given story.
Originality
Remote associations
Forms associations between elements that are remote from each other in time, or remote from each other logically
Thinking towards one right answer, as in solving a Interest in mathematical problem stated in a textbook convergent thinking Interest in divergent Open-ended thinking, where there is not a single right answer thinking
Problem Sensitivity
Flexibility
Creative Solution
Sensitivity
Guessing Ability
Abstract facts & work back to causes Theorize, Use Analogy, Metaphors
Identify key operating forces & guess causes Practice Guessing Causes of Everyday Phenomena
Restructuring Ability
Look from different professional viewpoints Ask how would an artist / engineer / doctor / accountant / student / philosopher look at this Ask provocative questions Look for critical data Look for alternative interpretations
Elaboration
Practice extending an ideas implications and ramifications Look for Logical, Functional & Uncommon Linkages Buildup network of ideas Mind Mapping
Fluency
Flexibility
Deliberately look for new views/ ideas/ solutions/ perspectives Journalistic Six Checklist of Questions Triggers Free Associations
Originality
Practice associative thinking Remote Associations Shifting Perceptions Look for deeper understanding
Creative Abilities
Fluency Flexibility
Originality
Brainstorming Multi perspective thinking Naive perception / Qs Roots & prescriptive thinking Network of ideas Diverse expert thinking All others included
Blocks to Creativity
Resource Myopia Following the rules Seeing play as only frivolous Focusing on just the right answer Being judgmental, critical Fear of failure
Resourcefulness Ability to think outside the rules Playfulness Focus on exploring possibilities Being accepting Ability to accept failure & learn form it
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Discomfort with taking risks Difficulty hearing another perspective or opinion Lack of openness to ideas Political problems and turf battles Avoiding ambiguity
Intelligent risk taking Active listening, acceptance of differences Receptivity to ideas Collaboration, focus on mutual gain Tolerance for ambiguity
Intolerance Lack of flexibility Giving up too soon Worrying too much about what people will think Thinking you are not creative
Blocks to Creativity
Fear of Failure Allergy to Ambiguity Fear of Humiliation Fear of Social Criticism Resource Myopia Starved Sensibilities Rigidity
Causes
Excessive routinized life Excessive specialization
Symptoms
Tendency to avoid unclear tasks, and complex brain teasing tasks
Uses
Helps in clearing up confusion Prevents from invention, discovery, creation
Causes
Excessive social dos and don'ts Severe punishments for deviations
Symptoms
Herd mentality Lack of independent judgment Excessive attachment to traditions
Uses
Necessary for collective existence & acceptance Misses opportunities for growth and self actualization
Fear of Failure
Causes
Excessive punishment for failure Excessive concern with loss of honor/ face
Symptoms
Tendency to restrict options & actions Restricting to sure of winning situations
Uses
Galvanizes a person for better effort Prevents from taking risks Inhibits from achieving full potential
Causes
Symptoms
Being painfully rejected / humiliated in the past leading to low self confidence & low self esteem Aversion to meet strangers, Tendency to seek flatterers, Sticking to same old group, coldness towards threatening persons, excessive shyness For artistic / scientific fields touchiness provides a shield from intruding outsiders A sense of loneliness may direct energy towards creative activities of non-interpersonal type
Uses
Resource Myopia
Causes
Excessive dependence Excessively sheltered life Lack of experience in dealing with problems
Symptoms
Tendency to get dependent and passive Feeling of helplessness Participating in narrow set of activities
Uses
Inhibits risk taking & divergent thinking
Rigidity
Causes
Ignorance Deep seated anxiety / conflict
Symptoms
Tendency to stereotype Be dogmatic Fixation with tools, ideas, etc
Uses
Provides protection in turbulent times Impedes growth, experimentation, learning & innovation
Starved Sensibilities
Causes
Over specialization in activities An ethic of asceticism
Symptoms
Feeling of dullness Inability to feel or experience or imagine richly
Uses
Provides concentration & single mindedness Reduces curiosity & openness, sense of fresh encounter with life
See the pattern in the score and identify how the fears and blocks prevent you from
Taking risks, experimenting, being open minded, learning, etc
Attempt to deblock
Awareness Analysis & Diagnosis Desire to unblock Help from a credible source Inoculation Reward Goal setting
You see things: you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never are: and say 'Why not?'- George Bernard Shaw All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up Pablo Picasso.
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