I mean, come on, trying to pick out what to wear before coming to class is pretty much already a creative start to our day with the process of mixing and matching, etc, etc.
Still, lecture was good. Mr. Yap started it out with a crowbar-like(maybe crowbar looks too far off though) metal part and proceeds to tell us to crack our brains, coming up with different uses of that specific metal thing.
Although in my brain, I kept on imagining it as a small bookshelf to hold tiny little books. Of course, metal would be sort of too grunge to be put in a normal household, so we can spray paint the metal thing and make it all pretty, yes?
In a way, that actually leads to us trying to think of creative things in conjunction with the whole topic he's trying to present, which is 'Defining Creativity'.
According to the slide he presented, Creativity can be defined as:
The generation of new ideas or a new way of doing things.
or
Creativity is the ability to think up and design new inventions, produce works of art, solve problems in new ways, or develop an idea based on an original, novel, or unconventional approach.
That's quite a general way to put it in words.
and according to this Edward de Bono book titled How To Have Creative Ideas; I bought back in my high-school years for just rm5(which was too much of a bargain),
"Creativity is a skill that everyone can learn, practise and use.
It is as much as skillas skiing, playing tennis, cooking or learning mathematics.
Everyone can learn such skills. At the end not everyone is going to be equally good at these skills.
But everyone can learn the skill. And everyone can seek to get better through practice"
-Edward de Bono
In conclusion?
Everyone is creative. It's pretty much important enough to keep us going, or we'd all be living constant lives, eating the same cereal shapes each day, taking the same route to work/school, talking the same topics every day.
Creativity is the element that changes all of that to make everything better.
