There are those who believe that creative people have special secret powers and innate talents. But that's not true. There is creativity in everyone. We have made a selection of 30 commandments, following which you can awaken your creative power and make your life brighter.

1. Creativity begins in the heart

By listening to our deepest desires, and carefully, we get the opportunity not only to engage in the creativity that we dream of, but also to dream that this creativity will reach significant proportions.

2. Creativity needs to be fed constantly.

Talent or interest is a living part of you, like a hand, or an ear, or an eye. All this needs to be used, it needs to be nourished, otherwise it will atrophy and you will not be who you should be.

A way to train your creativity every day is the “1 Page a Day” creative notebook. Source - creative Instagram of MYTH @miftvorchestvo

3. Vision has magical properties

Magic is the ability to see results without seeing the process leading to them. It is vision, inner vision, that allows you to notice what is missing in a work, and also helps you see what no one has seen before. This is an incredible human gift - to see beyond the present and the past and from that distant, unknown, to extract something that did not exist until now.

The great 20th century composer Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote: “We just need to close our eyes and listen for a while. Around us, in the air, there is always something never heard before.”

4. The best place to start the creative process is at the end.

Let each new creation appear in your mind as if out of nothing. The form, structure of a creation, the impressions and sensations it leaves, its very life - all this immediately appears, even in the simplest picture. Imagine the result. Add elements. Take the risk of removing some of the old ones. Examine the imaginary creature from the inside, the outside. You will learn a lot about your concept.

The ability to visualize your creation in a complete form makes it possible to work with knowledge, rather than build work on assumptions. This knowledge is the reason why many professional creators are so confident in themselves.

5. Creativity is not a problem, problem solving is not creativity.

Some people make the same decisions all their lives, others acquire new ones. The main motivating force for them is the severity of the problem. Once the worst is smoothed out, the motivation to act weakens. Fighting problems as a lifestyle is obviously a losing option, because it leads to the attenuation of activity, moreover, aimed at solving problems!

When you get a big and tasty problem in your hands, you no longer need to think - you already have an obsession. What if you suddenly had no problems? What would you be thinking about then? What did you do?

6. The stubbornness of artists makes the world a better place.

Luckily for us, artists are stubborn people. The bestselling author was advised by her therapist to aim for a career as a secretary, but she continued writing (that's me). The famous director was removed from the documentary project, but he continued to make films (Martin Scorsese). The talented actress was expelled from the Boston University acting program (Oscar winner Geena Davis). A lawyer who “should” spend time on “business” proved that he should have written too (John Grisham). These artists listened to their inner voice, and several external voices whispered - or shouted that they also know who we really are. These people strengthened our confidence and changed our destinies.

7. There is a place for creativity always and everywhere

The text doesn't care where you create it. Important, that . You do it. The same is true for drawing. One artist lost a whole year because he “couldn’t work without a studio.” When the studio appeared and he returned to work, he created several rather large paintings, but much more - beautiful miniatures in charcoal and pencil, which he could even paint on a TV stand if he so desired. But he didn’t work - and not because there was no workshop, but because he simply didn’t work. There is a place for creativity in any life, no matter how eventful and people-filled or, conversely, boring and empty.

8. The art of small steps

If you are a beginner musician and want to learn how to play the piano, then sit down and touch the keys. Great. Tomorrow you can sit down at the piano again and touch the keys. Five minutes a day is better than zero. Five minutes can turn into ten, just like a light hug can turn into something more passionate.

I can’t write a whole book today, but I can write one page. I won’t be able to immediately become an accomplished pianist, but I can devote 15 minutes to music lessons. You may not be able to count on a solo exhibition in Soho today, but you are quite capable of drawing your cocker spaniel, imposingly sitting in an old leather chair, or sketching the hand of a loved one. You can begin.

9. Magic in action

Goethe said, “Whenever you think or believe that you can do something, do it, because there is magic, grace and power in action.”

10. There is always an opportunity to do something positive.

The inconvenient truth is that there is always an opportunity to do something positive - yes, hell, always, even if we are not in the mood for it. Optimism towards yourself and your capabilities is already a conscious choice. We can make this choice, believe in the best and not the worst, but to do this we need to hear the negative soundtrack playing in our heads and decide to replace it.

11. Use constructive and practical thinking

Constructive thinking is the generation of raw ideas, without any evaluations or judgments. The strategy is to come up with as many obvious ideas as possible, as well as the craziest ones, and criticism at this time is inappropriate. Once you've come up with more ideas, change your approach to include practical thinking. It is necessary to identify which ones have the greatest value. Edison once claimed to have come up with 3,000 different theories of electric lighting. Each of them looked reasonable, but he settled on the most practical and profitable. His first goal was to create as many opportunities as possible, and then he began to evaluate - identifying the healthiest and most viable idea.

12. Nonjudgmental thinking is dynamic and flexible.

A creative person is able to think freely and flexibly. It allows for the unlimited deployment of ideas, their organization in ranks, a kind of hitchhiking of options, any combination of them for the invention of new ones, until it comes to the final breakthrough result that makes you exclaim “Eureka!” Ideas replace each other, giving rise to additional ideas and their combinations, which multiplies possibilities.

13. Test creativity with emotions

Measuring your success is very important. A great way to measure success is to determine how you want to feel. Take some time and jot down a list of the emotions you want to experience from your business. Perhaps it will be something similar to this one.

• Liberty
• Happiness
• Completeness
• Cheerfulness
• Self confidence
• Security
• Creation
• Completeness

Check your feelings against this list regularly. Does business give you the feelings you dream of? For example, do you feel protected? If yes, then you have succeeded in your definition. Congratulations! And if not, try to understand why. What can you do to change how you feel?

14. Headphones help muffle the noise in the world around you.

Headphones, with or without music, create a kind of buffer around you. This is especially useful if you are a woman and trying to work on a novel in a cafe. For a certain type of sociable people (meaning men), the sight of a lady with furrowed eyebrows furiously typing something on a laptop in a public place evokes the only association: you need to come up and meet someone. Headphones are a great way to keep these well-meaning but very annoying citizens at bay.

“I always write novels with headphones on. Sometimes I even remember that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to connect them to something. Headphones help muffle the noise from the outside world. And when they are connected to the player, they drive music at terrible speed directly into my brain, clearly outlining the shapes of my thoughts and giving power to the sentences appearing on the page.”

15. You are your job

You change and your work becomes different. When you develop, so does your creativity. Your work lives and breathes because you live and breathe. By living life to the fullest, you enhance the collective human experience. As William Blake wrote, “Everything that lives lives not alone, not for itself.” There is no longer any difference between you and others, between what you give and what you receive. It is all the same, an ever-changing dance, a constant conversation in which it is impossible to say more where one thing begins and another ends.

16. Each artist - an art book

Your art book is a ticket to free creative sailing. This is your “sandbox” in which you can try new artistic means and techniques, new colors and their effects, try your hand at different formats, without limiting yourself. If you have inspiration, write poetry. Let thoughts find verbal expression as well as graphic expression.

On Lifehacker. If you want to learn how to awaken your creative impulses and what you need to do to help your inner creator grow and develop, be sure to take the time to read this article. You will not regret!

“I’m not a creative person, I’m not given this,” many of us say, looking with admiration at the caricatures of street artists or listening to a long-haired hippie singing a Radiohead song in transition. But there is good news: the latest scientific research suggests that all people are the same and that there is a creator in each of us. Therefore the phrase “I’m not a creative person” is just a convenient excuse for laziness.

The myth of a creative streak was cultivated and carefully guarded among bohemians for a long time. Artists, musicians, actors, designers and even average copywriters like to look like they belong to a different breed, and while working they are moved by at least the hand of God. The standard of a creative personality is a cross between Lady Gaga and Aguzarova, who yesterday was going to fly to the moon, today she is crushing the charts with a new song, and tomorrow she is giving an interview about the benefits of meditation in a funny kokoshnik. And to start creating, we need to go through the nine circles of hell at least three times, undergo drug rehabilitation and go to meditate in the Tibetan mountains.

Scientific research rejects any division between the creative and corporate working classes

What can we say if in the modern corporate environment there is an artificial division into “creative” and “corporate” types who relate to each other like Gryffindor and Slytherin students. However, almost all studies of creativity that have been conducted over the past 50 years reject this division: the creative muscle has nothing to do with genetics, intelligence, or personality traits.

For example, during an experiment at the Institute for Diagnostics and Personality Research (IPAR), scientists invited several dozen successful representatives of various creative professions to the conference. Over the course of several days, they went through a lot of questions, which did not really clarify where to look for creative inclinations. The only common features of the subjects looked like this: balanced personal characteristics, above average intelligence, openness to new experiences and a tendency to choose difficult options. As you can see, nothing special.

There is no such thing as a creative personality type

Then stubborn guys in white coats began to look for creative inclinations in a person’s personal qualities: a huge amount of information was collected about the outstanding creators of the 20th century, after which everyone passed the virtual test “five-factor model of personality.” Scientists expected that creative people would have a bias in one of five personality characteristics (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism), but again the finger in the sky - among the subjects there were neurasthenics, and extroverts, and friendly drunkards, and many more Who. Conclusion: there is no creative personality type.

Having abandoned psychology, they began to look for the creative muscle in the human brain. The researchers did not give a damn about the request for cremation and immediately after the death of the genius they began to study his skull. And again disappointment: the brain of the famous physicist was no different from the brain of a professional baseball player or a homeless person who had been hit by a car. The third round of slingshot shooting at airplanes is completed, the scientists are “on fire” with a score of 3:0.

There is no correlation between the gene code and creativity

When psychologists, physiologists, and simply everyone who cared were left with nothing, genetics, which had previously unsuccessfully tried to find the old age gene and the gene, began to solve the problem. To rule out differences in genes and the influence of upbringing, the scientists studied only families with twin children. Researching the Connecticut Twin Registry since 1897, Marvin Reznikoff's group assembled a team of 117 twins and divided them into two groups (identical and fraternal). The results of two dozen tests showed that there is no correlation between the gene code and creative abilities. 4:0, and it's almost Argentina versus Jamaica.

Over the past 50 years, there have been a wagon and a small cart of such experiments. In his book “The Muse Won’t Come,” David Brooks provides a dozen more references to unsuccessful attempts to find the nature of the creative muscle and concludes that, like any other skill, it can be improved through training.

Training to improve creative thinking

Morning Pages

Old as time, but an effective method. As soon as we wake up, we grab a notepad and pen and start writing. It doesn't matter whether it's a story about Godzilla walking through Tokyo, an essay about a warm blanket, or a sleepy analysis of the geopolitics of Mongolia. The main thing is to just write and not think about anything. The norm for morning writing is three notebook pages or 750 words. You can use the 750 words resource and drum on the keys, but experienced scribblers advise doing it the old fashioned way - with pen on paper.

What if

This is not even a method, but a simple question that Stanislavsky forced any aspiring actor to ask. “What if” can be applied to any familiar object, part or action. For example, what if the story in a book was told with pictures? This is how the comic came about. Or what if, instead of world news, we told what ordinary people care about? This is how the yellow press appeared.

This method perfectly develops imagination and is actually the trigger for any creative process. And it’s a lot of fun to ask strange questions. What if all people drank blood? What if a funny man with the habits of a dictator from a banana republic became the president of the country?

Word crushing

In the adult brain there is a rigid system of symbols that, at the first opportunity, likes to evaluate and label everything around. As a result of such automation, but this is also the main reason for narrow and stereotyped thinking. By coming up with new words, we force our brain to turn off rational thinking and turn on imagination. The technique comes from childhood and is extremely simple: we take any two words, combine them into one and then try to imagine what it would look like in life. Bath + toilet = bathtub, Kim + Kanye = Kimye.

Torrens method

The method is based on doodles - scribbles of the same type that need to be turned into a drawing. On a piece of paper we draw identical symbols in a row (a circle, two circles, a nail, a cross, a square, etc.). Then we turn on our imagination and start drawing.

Example. The circle could be Captain America's shield, a cat's eye, or a nickel, and the square could be a haunted house or a piece of art. It develops not only imagination, but also persistence in searching for ideas, since each new doodle is a competition with oneself.

Focal object method

The method is to find connections between the main idea and random objects. For example, we open a book on a random page, grab 3-5 words that first caught our eye, and try to connect them with the subject we are thinking about. A book can be replaced by a TV, a video game, a newspaper, or something else. Works great when the thought process moves by inertia.

Gordon's analogies

This is not the easiest to learn, but a very effective method. William Gordon believed that the source of creative ideas lies in the search for analogies, which he divided into four groups.

• Direct analogy: we are looking for an analogy to an object in the surrounding world. On a scale from your room to the country.
• Symbolic: We are looking for an analogy that will describe the essence of the object in a nutshell.
• Fantastic analogy: we come up with an analogy, taking the limitations of objective reality out of the equation.
• Personal analogy: we try to take the place of the object and look at the situation through the eyes of the object. For example, how does the chair on which we sit live?

Indirect Strategies

This is a very strange and interesting way that Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt came up with to bring a tired brain out of a creative stupor along secret paths. The essence of the method: we have 115 cards with advice written on them. Moreover, the advice is quite strange: “Remove ambiguities and turn them into details,” “Massage your neck,” or “Use an old idea.” The trick is that there are no direct instructions for action, and in each advice two people can see two different solutions to the problem. You can make the cards yourself and pour them, for example, into a vase or use online tips. For example, .

Stick to a daily routine

In his latest work, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami debunks the myth of the creative lazy person, talking about the fact that a strict daily routine (getting up at 5 a.m., bedtime at 10 pm) became the main catalyst for his performance. The mind is inclined to be capricious and find excuses for its own laziness, and following the regime takes it out of it and teaches it to turn on half a turn.

Don't neglect other creative activities

Study or. Any creative activity keeps the brain in good shape, and alternating them switches attention and allows you to find answers in rather unexpected places.

According to research, more than a third of Nobel Prize winners in literature were engaged in another form of art - painting, theater or dance. Einstein called music his second passion and, if he had not become a physicist, most likely would have become a violinist.

Don't give up

When things don't get off the ground, persevere. For example, the writer Rody Doyle says that during a stupor he begins to pour out on paper the nonsense that comes to mind. After a while, the brain stops pushing and protesting and simply turns off, releasing streams of thoughts. And Hemingway, when he sat down to write a novel, could write dozens of versions of the first sentence until he found the one he believed. Then he developed the action from it.

Don't get hung up

If persistence does not help, we go from the opposite. Take a walk, do something distracted, communicate with other people. There is a theory according to which everything has long been invented, and the creative process lies only in the combination of these ideas. And if the answers are hidden within us, we just need to tune in to the right wave and hear them. You can sit in the sun in the lotus position, concentrate on washing dishes, walk through the forest listening to ambient music, or go jumping at a rock concert. The main thing is to do what allows us to turn off the internal dialogue and concentrate on the moment.

Treat creativity like a game

Creativity is first and foremost fun. Don't take it too seriously. Now I will explain why. In 2001, an experiment was conducted at Maryland College in which students had to guide a mouse through a maze drawn as in childhood. The students of the first group walked forward towards the piece of cheese (positive attitude), while the second group ran away from the owl (negative attitude). Both groups completed it in the same amount of time, but the students of the second group started avoidance mechanisms, and the second group took, on average, 50% longer to solve the problems that followed the maze than the students of the first group.

Just start

Many of us in childhood dreamed of becoming musicians, artists or actors, but over time, a pragmatic approach to life pushed these dreams further into the mezzanine. Betsy Edwards has a theory that for most people today, the left side of the brain becomes dominant as they age. She is responsible for analytical thinking, the symbol system and the mode of action, and every time we try to learn to play the guitar or draw, we hear her voice, which advises us to put this bullshit aside and do something useful.

At first it will be difficult to step over, but if you have the courage and desire, then over time his voice will become quieter, and criticism in the style of “you draw like an asshole” will be replaced by something more constructive. Getting started is the hardest thing.

CONCLUSION

As you can see, Every person can think creatively, the only question is training. This can be compared to a lack of flexibility: immediately trying to do the splits, we will grunt, moan and cry, but if the muscles are properly warmed up and stretched, then in a couple of years it will be possible to send a resume for the position of a circus gymnast. The main thing is to remember that it's never too late to start something new: artists, musicians, poets and writers already live within us. Feel free to wake them up.

We are all, to some extent, creative people, even those who do not consider themselves as such and consider themselves to be people of a purely analytical mindset. We simply live in conditions where creativity needs to be developed, but there is simply no time for this, because it is necessary to ensure our existence. However, even a few minutes a day devoted to creativity can help you solve many problems. In general, creativity is something without which the existence of our world in the form in which we see it is impossible. A world without creativity in some sense can be considered an inanimate world, a world of machines. Find out what the greats of history thought about it from quotes and phrases about creativity.

Quotes and phrases about creativity:

• 1) Creativity means allowing yourself to make mistakes. The art is knowing which ones to keep.
  Scott Adams
• 2) The fundamental purpose of education is to create people who are capable of doing new things, and not simply repeating what other generations have done - people who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
  Jean Piaget
• 3) Any activity becomes creative when the performer cares about the correct or better performance.
  John Updike
• 4) I never felt age... If you have a creative job, you don't have age or time.
  Louise Nevelson
• 5) But, if you have nothing to create, then you can create yourself.
  Carl Gustav Jung
• 6) Another word for creativity is courage.
  George Prince
• 7) For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep at night. Secondly, there should be no need for preparation for practical use.
  William N. Lipscomb Jr.
• 8) Clear the corners of your mind and creativity will immediately fill them.
  Dee Hawk
• 9) Enthusiasm is the interaction of inspiration, motivation and a pinch of creativity.
  Beau Bennett
• 10) Creativity means inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun.
  Mary Lou Cook
• 11) Each person must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
  Martin Luther King Jr.
• 12) Creativity can solve almost any problem. The act of creativity strikes the habit by overcoming everything in an original way.
  George Lois
• 13) Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
  Earl Nightingale
• 14) Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things differently.
  Edward de Bono
• 15) We need creativity to free ourselves from temporary structures that have been created through a certain sequence of experiences.
  Edward de Bono
• 16) The need for invention is cunning, it’s true, but creativity is its father, and knowledge is the midwife.
  Jonathan Shattke
• 17) The opposite of creativity is cynicism.
  Esa Saarinen
• 18) Creativity is the ability to bring order to the randomness of nature.
  Eric Hoffer
• 19) Creativity is not a search for things, it is the creation of something from them after they are found.
  James Russell Lowell
• 20) Thank God for creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own contribution to human progress.
  Wilfred Peterson
• 21) There are two ways to be creative. You can sing and dance. Or, you can create an environment in which singers and dancers can thrive.
  Warren Bennis
• 22) People create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
  Zhanna Anouya
• 23) Creativity is a wonderful convergence of the uninhibited energy of a child and the seeming opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed by the disciplined intellect of an adult
  Norman Podhoretz
• 24) The secret of creativity lies in the ability to hide your sources.
  Albert Einstein
• 25) Creativity, like human life itself, begins in the dark.
  Julia Cameron
• 26) Mystery is at the heart of creativity. Yes, and surprises.
  Julia Cameron
• 27) Creative thinking can mean realizing that there is no virtue in making things the way they were made.
  Rudolf Flesch
• 28) The more you reason, the less you create.
  Raymond Chandler
• 29) I criticize by creating, not by looking for mistakes.
  Marcus Tulius Cicero
• 30) Creativity can be described as getting rid of doubts.
  Gail Sheehy
• 31) I suspect that creativity is trying to tell you something.
  Frank Capra
• 32) Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never expect more than you work for.
  Rita Mae Brown
• 33) Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. This is self-awareness, and everything that comes from self-awareness is lousy. You won't help try to do something. You just have to do something.
  Ray Bradbury
• 34) Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction.
  Pablo Picasso
• 35) Creativity is the ability to see relationships where there are none.
  Thomas Disch
• 36) There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, it is your talents, it is the creativity that you bring into your life and the lives of the people you love.
  Sophia Loren
• 37) Creativity requires courage.
  Henri Matisse
• 38) Sometimes creativity simply means working every day to help other people see a problem differently.
  Joseph Badaracco
• 39) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
  Edwin H. Land
• 40) Talent works, genius creates.
  Robert Schumann
• 41) Uncertainty and mystery charge life. Don't let them intimidate you too much, for they keep boredom and the spark of creativity at bay.
  R. I. Fitzenry
• 42) Every day I create my own reality. So what will I choose to create today?
  Gabriella Goddard

Morning of Doomsday)

7:10 Went to bed at 1 am. I woke up at 7. I didn’t get any sleep at all. I looked out the window, and there everything was gray and rain... Sadness...

8:00 I had breakfast and pulled myself together. It's time to think about what will happen to me this whole month. But I'm too lazy to think. As usual, I postpone drawing up at least an approximate route until “later”. I hope there will be time at the airport and, at least there, I’ll come up with a plan for the first day)

8:55 I pulled on two backpacks. Left home. I'm going to the airport by public transport.

9:20. I passed the pies stall. From there, Rammstein's "Mutter" was heard in hellish bass. I realized that this music must be on my playlist for today.. because of the weather.. because of the mood..

12:00 I’m at Domodedovo airport. Departure is at 14:50.

12:10 The queue for check-in for the flight, for the most part, consists of girls in black hijabs (I am flying with a transfer in Bahrain) - the bells tightened... it seems like they are all ordinary people, but due to the current situation in the world - how- it's still scary.

13:00 There is some chaos at the airport. It would be nice to have nowhere to sit, but nowhere to stand. It seems that everyone decided to fly away from Moscow at once.

14:10 Boarding has begun. I saw a great sign when leaving. I would like it to be read by those who are the smartest, who wander around Duty Free until victory and say: “They still won’t fly away without us!” Today I just heard this phrase from the latest “kings of airports” (that’s what I call them).

14:50 The plane takes off minute by minute. I fly with Gulf Air. I looked around on board - not everything is so bad. There are not so many girls in black hijabs, and their hijabs are cute with very beautiful piping on the sleeves.

15:00 At this airline, flight attendants do not show the rules and flight instructions themselves, this is demonstrated by a cartoon on the screen. I liked it - I love cartoons)

16:00 Drinks served. Now they are delivering food. They ask not: “Meat? Fish?”, but “Meat or vegetarian?” Of course meat!

The chicken was served with mushroom sauce. Garnish with mashed potatoes. And also salad, bun, processed cheese, butter, tea, chocolate cake and cookies. I love food on airplanes: unwrapping all those bags and boxes. Eat something hot, and then drink tea with a delicious dessert and look at the clouds ❤

20:00 I'm in Bahrain. In a city that I learned about a week ago when I bought a ticket from Moscow to Bangkok with a transfer in a certain “Bahrein”.

20:20. My little tradition at every airport is to try to find a Starbucks and drink a caramel Frappuccino. Having ordered a caramel barista, he suggested trying a new frappuccino with chocolate chip cookie flavor. I agreed)

I paid by card because I don’t have local money)

20:56 I searched the outlet. You need to charge, but here all the sockets are scattered chaotically around the airport. I don't like this)

21:13

The Kingdom of Bahrain is an island state on the archipelago of the same name in the Persian Gulf in South-West Asia. Bahrain occupies three relatively large and many small islands 16 km east of the coast of Saudi Arabia and is connected to this country by a road bridge.

The main part of the country is occupied by a desert plain.

So that you understand what Bahrain is. These are women in closed clothes of all kinds (there are even those who have everything covered, even their faces!!) and stern looks, and men who stare at girls from other countries with a mad look. Some because we are not in closed clothes, which means we are ready for anything, and some because we are open and you can look at us, some because they see this very rarely. I don’t feel comfortable in such countries and most likely I will never backpack in them. Landing would be quicker already)

22:00 I boarded the plane to fly from Bahrain to Bangkok. The last two flights in a row (from Vienna to Moscow, and now from Moscow to Bahrain) I came across unsightly seats (they did not recline) and I felt like a corpse the entire flight. This time I just prayed that I would get a good place, otherwise I really want to sleep and won’t be able to stand sitting still for another 6 hours!

I got on the plane and checked the seat! Hurray-hurray-hurray! Everything is working!

When I saw that my monitor, built into the back of the adjacent chair, had a USB input for charging mobile devices, I simply squealed with joy.

I immediately set it up to charge my phone and power bank.

When I realized that I was sitting in two places alone and no one else would come, I imagined how I would remove the divider between the chairs and put my buns here so I could sleep - I even grunted with happiness)))

They also show movies on the plane! And even in Russian! Bliss)

Types and functions of creativity

There are different types of creativity:

• production and technical
• inventive
• scientific
• political
• organizational
• artistic
• everyday life, etc.

in other words, types of creativity correspond to types of practical and spiritual activity.

Vitaly Tepikin, a researcher of the human creative factor and the phenomenon of the intelligentsia, identifies artistic, scientific, technical, sports-tactical, as well as military-tactical creativity as independent types.

Creativity as an ability

Creativity as a process (creative thinking)

Stages of Creative Thinking

G. Wallace

The best known description today is the description of the sequence of stages (stages) of creative thinking, which was given by the Englishman Graham Wallace in 1926. He identified four stages of creative thinking:

1. Preparation- formulation of the problem; attempts to solve it.
2. Incubation- temporary distraction from the task.
3. Insight- emergence of an intuitive solution.
4. Examination- testing and/or implementation of the solution.

However, this description is not original and goes back to the classic report of A. Poincaré in 1908.

A. Poincare

They came especially willingly... during the hours of a leisurely climb through the wooded mountains, on a sunny day. The slightest amount of alcohol seemed to scare them away.

It is interesting to note that stages similar to those described by Poincaré were identified in the process of artistic creativity by B. A. Lezin at the beginning of the 20th century.

1. Work fills the sphere of consciousness with content, which will then be processed by the unconscious sphere.
2. Unconscious work represents a selection of the typical; “But how that work is done, of course, cannot be judged, it is a mystery, one of the seven world mysteries.”
3. Inspiration there is a “transfer” of a ready-made conclusion from the unconscious sphere into consciousness.

Stages of the inventive process

In the most acute form, the connection between the personal and the creative is revealed by N. A. Berdyaev. He's writing:

Motivation for creativity

V. N. Druzhinin writes:

The basis of creativity is the global irrational motivation of human alienation from the world; it is directed by a tendency to overcome and functions as a “positive feedback”; a creative product only spurs the process, turning it into a pursuit of the horizon.

Thus, through creativity, a person’s connection with the world is realized. Creativity stimulates itself.

Mental health, freedom and creativity

N. A. Berdyaev adheres to the following point of view:

The creative act is always liberation and overcoming. There is an experience of power in it.

Thus, creativity is something in which a person can exercise his freedom, connection with the world, connection with his deepest essence.

see also

Notes

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