What Is Creativity

Creativity, it is a simple but yet a very subjective word. In some dictionary it means creation of ideas and some others define it as generation of new ideas or new concept. In tutorial however define it as the generation of new ideas or a new way of doing things. Basically, all sources said that creativity means make new ideas, but still nobody until now is able to grasp the concrete meaning of the word creativity. If you do know the true meaning, then let me ask you this few question:

a) How do you judge a person creative or not?

b) What makes a person creative?

c) How to be creative

d) Are you creative?

So far I can’t answer the question above, but I can tell you why creativity is so important. Look around you, creativity mind of the geniuses has brought us to this age; we are now exiting the modern age and beginning to enter the information age where creative minds grow more rapidly than before (I believe it so). Geniuses such as Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci or even our former Prime Minister Datuk Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammad who is a creative icon that have shaped the world that was to now. We doesn’t have to be an artist, a scientist or a politician to be creative, a simple citizen like us have an ability to generate ideas and solve problems can already to be consider creative.
LEONARDO DA VINCI ALBERT EINSTEIN DATUK TUN DR. MAHATHIR MOHAMMAD

Speaking of generating ideas, I learn that there is no such things as right or wrong idea or stupid or smart ideas but there is good or bad ideas. You could have come up with an idea, to your point of view it could be an excellent idea but to other perspective, that might be a terrible one. I also understand that there are 2 types creativity, one is Creativity with a big C and the other is creativity with a small c. What the different you might ask? The one with big C means a person with an ability to make an idea that is so great that could change the different way of thinking of the people from nation wide to world wide scale like Leonardo da Vinci or people won the award for Nobel Prize. While for the creativity with small c means an ability to create an idea to solve daily problems or enigma like how to get from point A to point B more efficiently, how to design a product that can catch the attention of the buyers or make an invention that make our life much simpler.