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6 Myths of Creativity
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1. Creativity Comes From Creative Types

2. Money Is a Creativity Motivator

3. Time Pressure Fuels Creativity

4. Fear Forces Breakthroughs

5. Competition Beats Collaboration

6. A Streamlined Organization Is a Creative Organization

Breen, Bill. "The 6 Myths Of Creativity | Page 2 | Fast Company." FastCompany.com - Where Ideas and People Meet | Fast Company. 1 Dec. 2004. Web. 27 Jan. 2011. <[] ||

Annice There are three reasons why people are motivated to be creative: 1. Need for novel, varied, and complex stimulation 2.need to communicate ideas and values 3.need to solve problems

In order to be creative you need to able to view things in a new way. Some ways that creativity is used is by people who express unusual thoughts, people who make important discovers that only you know bout. Characteristics of the creative personality: Creative individuals have a great deal of energy, but they are also often quiet and at rest. Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time. Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility. Creative individuals alternate between imagination and fantasy ant one end, and rooted sense of reality at the other. Creative people seem to harbor opposite tendencies on the continuum between extroversion and introversion. Creative individuals are also remarkable humble and proud at the same time. Creative individuals to a certain extent escape rigid gender role stereotyping and have a tendency toward androgyny. Generally, creative people are thought to be rebellious and independent. Most creative persons are very passionate about their work, yet they can be extremely objective about it as well. The openness and sensitivity of creative individuals often exposes them to suffering pain yet also a great deal of enjoyment.

Nico Many people think that you become less creative when you get into the old age area. But that isn't true, we begin to lose creativity when we go to school, when we reach the age of twelve, we only use 2% of our potential. As we get older, we learn more rules and begin to lose it more. In school, we are usually taught that success comes from regurgitating what we learn and not from what is interesting. When we leave the time of constant learning, our creative potential has been greatly shrunk. However, academic knowledge is not bad, when you only learn how to know it and then recite it, it is very creativity killing. Around the IQ of 120, people begin to fall into the expert trap of defending their field but not expanding it. But if you have a low IQ, that does not do much for your creativity. To keep your creativity, try new places and re-read books looking for new things in them. Do anything to keep yourself not getting too comfortable with certain things.

Creating Minds.org. "Age and Creativity." Creating Minds.org. Google, 2010. Web. 27 Jan. 2011. .

Courtney! Unknown. "Easy Peasy Creative Thinking." // Creative Thinking with Creative Geniuses like You! // 2008. Web. 27 Jan. 2011. . This isn't really an article, but this entry on this website talks about the "Easy Peasy (Lemon Squeezy) Creative Thinking" method. The method consists of many small exercises you can do to successful creative thinking. The first step the website lists is to not over-think things. It suggests you not take in everything at one time, but to pick apart situations and look at them from different points of view. Another exercise is to record everyday observations in a journal. But to amp up the creativity, you can doodle or draw a little "mind map" of what you saw or thought that day. My all time favorite step of the method is to just let loose, or "flap your wings", as they call it. In the story they say that in this step, you just try to live life to the fullest. If you hear a song that you like just in a random place, you should break out dancing! This is definitely creative because I'm sure no one would think to break out dancing in say...the grocery store, or the mall. I thought that all of the steps of this method were really interesting, especially the dancing one, and it would be cool to incorporate them into the class.

Kirstiana Recently, it has been recorded that American Creativity (CQ) scores are falling. They were fine up until 1990, but since then, the scores have constantly gone down. The article blames it on the school systems which don't focus enough on creativity and creative problem solving, and kids with families who don't support their creativity and discourage them. Children ask tons of questions when they are young, but as they get older, about Middle School, they stop. People generally think it’s because they lose interest, but really it’s the opposite, they lost interest because they stopped asking questions, because it’s looked down upon, whether at home, at school, basically just in society. Creativity is identified as the #1 "leadership competency" of the future, and is necessary if we are to solve problems in our world, such as health care or the what happened with the gulf oil spill. Other countries like Britain and China have realized the importance of creativity for a healthy country, and have started encouraging it with special emphasis on creativity in activities at school, (such as kids have to come up for a solution for an everyday problem) because it is believed that creativity can be taught, and needs to be. Bronson, Po, and Ashley Merryman. "The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek." // Newsweek //. 10 July 2010. Web. 26 Jan. 2011. . For the article, click here

Aidan http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199203/the-art-creativity Kaufman P the art of creativity published march 01 1992 visited January 27 2011 When the creative process is sparked it is truly an amazing thing. Mostly because when the creative link sparks it is as a spirit has come alive and is feeding ideas to you. It's not a one time thing that comes and goes it is something that stays for a while when activated. People say that There is like a block during your creative process that prevents ideas from coming through making it harder to solve problems.

Michael w This article is about what kind of environments creativity can come up in and how businesses are not providing that environment. The first thing it talks about is how to be creative e person really needs to think that their idea will work basically they have to believe in themselves. The second thing is that when someone has an idea it is best not to expose them to critics because they will not want the person to judge their work. So overall this article talks about what creativity needs and gives some examples "Weird Rules of Creativity - Think You Manage Creativity? Here's Why You're Wrong - HBS Working Knowledge." HBS Working Knowledge - Faculty Research at Harvard Business School. Web. 27 Jan. 2011. [].

John M Naiman, Linda. "What Is Creativity?" //Creativity at Work | Corporate Alchemy | Creativity & Innovation Consulting, Executive Education, Training, Coaching Innovators, Speaking//. Creativity at Work: Articles and Tips, 2010. Web. 27 Jan. 2011. []. A women talking about what she thinks creativty is. She has some good points and she knows what she is talking about. But when talking about creativity, no one knows for sure. She also talks about the importance of creativity and some science behind it.

Helen "Being Open." //Creating Minds.org//. Google, n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2011. . Creativity and curiosity shines when you are open—opened to yourself and others. Contrary to this would be, being closed, obviously. Other than being open or closed off, you may just ‘be’. Ontology is the study that describes what it is to simply ‘be’. We exist in two contexts of the world: the internal context and the external context. Our internal context alters everything that we may perceive from the external world. When you close off the internal world from the external, you hinder your creative process. When you are closed off you strictly stick to you existing beliefs and ideas. It is believed that a good argument is one where you would defeat your opponent. When you open your internal mind to the world you challenge ideas, as well as change and modify your ideas. One with the door open between the internal and external world lives with a sense of curiosity, and always ready to learn new things. Your mind is flexible. When your opened you have the ability to see things as they are and imagine them as they could be.

__** Leah G-O **__ Based on the results of the Torrance tests, a group of exams referred to as the “gold standard in creativity assessment,” American student’s capacity to be creative is declining. Luckily, “Creativity can be taught” as quoted by a professor in an article found in Newsweek about neuroscience and how it can reverse the creativity drop. The key is through schools; all we need is for the school systems to hop on board. Teachers claim that there isn’t enough time for a creativity class because of the kids tightly packed schedules; kids are lucky if they get an art class once a week. University of Georgia’s Mark Runco calls this “art bias”, or, the false idea that creativity can only be expressed through art. But when scholars gave a creativity task to both music and engineering majors they found that the scores were at the same high standard: their brain was working the same way an artists might. That’s why researchers say creativity needs to be put in the homeroom: the argument that kids cant be taught creativity because there’s to much else to learn is simply not true. http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/american-creativity-in-decline/

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Unknown. "Research: Remembering Dreams May Indicate Creativity." Business News | The Business Journals. Silicon Valley, 24 June 2003. Web. 03 Feb. 2011. .

In 2003, at the University of Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, phycology professor David Watson researched the relationship between creativity and dreaming. The study showed that people who are creative, imaginative, and have a tendency to daydream or fantasize are more prone to remember the details of their dreams when they wake up in the morning. The study showed that when a dream is more bizarre in its content, the dreamer is more likely to remember the dream in the morning. There was no correlation between amount or quality of sleep and dreaming. Watson says that people with a greater level of creativity and fantasizing have a smaller barrier between their sleeping mind and their conscious, awake mind.

WIll [] This article talks about how video games can enhance your creativity. In a graduate student’s graduate thesis he asked about 98 students to play “Dance Dance Revolution”. He found that the people with either a positive mood and highly aroused (excited) and the people with a negative mood and low arousal were the most creative. The happy people had a lot of energy and were “in the zone” while sad people were more analytical, both of which are important to creativity.

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“Have you ever had the thought, “I’m not creative? I can’t even draw a strait line.” If so you’re not alone.” Jan Phillips makes the point that we all feel that we are not creative, when really we are born creative. When ever ask to think of someone creative we think of Mozart, Monet, or Jackson Pollack. The world is not divided into 2 groups. The creative group, and the non-creative group. If we consider there is, it’s because some show creativity, and some don’t. He states that, “Creativity is about being fully alive, living courageously, or as the painter Joan Miro´ says, "Expressing with precision all the gold sparks the soul gives off." Knowing this is the key to expressing the creativity within you.

Philips, Jan. "What is Creativity anyway?" huffingtonpst.com. N.p., 12 June 2010. Web. 25 Jan. 2011. <[]>.

Eli ==== Have you ever been daydreaming anda solution to a problem you have encountered just pops into your head and yourealize, “hey, I figured it out) this is just the final step of four in thecreative process. This article talks about and explains each of the four stepsin the creative process and goes into detail on each one and at what level ofyour subconscious that they occur.  Goleman, D. "The Art of Creativity | Psychology Today." //Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness Find a Therapist//. Web. 07 Feb. 2011. []. ====