Flow of Creativity

 

This week's creative activity felt kind of simple but was somewhat profound in it's implications. We had to come up with 10 "fuzzy situtions" which were essentially vague situations that were somewhat flawed on some level. I actually kind of struggled to come up with 10 of them but eventually I managed. I came up with an ecletic set of fuzzy situtions ranging from "Social communication for people with autism" to "Airline companies." I was really just trying to come up with anything. It was quite cool really the rolladex of ideas that were spinning through my head during this process. After having 10 of them, I sat down and began to develop a couple of them out. As I gave each issue more thought, I was able to have the problem unfold naturally for me as I worked through things on each layer. 

Afterwards, we went around the class and breifly discussed what each of us came up with. I was amazed at all the different and unique things people came up. All of these issues that I had'nt even really thought about before that my classmates were creatively addressing. It put things into a new perspective for me. Look at what we were able to come up with through just a little bit of dedicated thought. It reinforced my faith in forward movement for humanity. Any one of these ideas could very well snowball and change the lives of many. I brought to mind a quote that stuck out to me from the recent reading: 

"The results of creativity enrich the culture and so they indirectly improve the quality of all of our lives. But we may also learn from this knowledge how to make our own lives directly more interesting and productive." (Csikszentmihalyi, p. 10)

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