Color me creative


Current mood: creative

Someone suggested today that my job is to be creative. What exactly is creative?

The word CREATIVE is defined as being characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative

The word CREATIVITY is defined as having the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination

CREATIVENESS is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas of concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts.

Some researchers believe that creativity is the outcome of the same congitive processes as intelligence and is only judged as creativity in terms of its consequences, i.e. when the outcome of cognitive processes happens to produce something novel.

Some researchers have linked personal traits such as independence of judgement, self-confidence, attraction to complexity, aesthetic orientation and risk-taking are used as measures of the creativity of individuals. Creativity is also related to the trait, openness to experience.

The word CREATIVE in 28 different languages. Of the alphabets I can read, I think the first Czech one is my favorite.