Captured Thought: The Truth About Creativity

Captured Thought: The Truth About Creativity

The word "creativity" has had a mysterious hidden meaning deep in my mind for a long time.  In addition, it was not really obvious for me to know what it really was since it is not a visible, and specific word.  By the time I got into elementary school, I've already been hearing about the importance of this word that wasn't really easy to see the true identity of countless times.  In fact, it was once believed to be a talent that you were born with that cannot be taught.

However, This idea changed completely after I read the article "The Creativity Crisis by Po Bronson, and Ashley Merryman" actively, with the new technique of annotating.  When I first read the article, it felt like I just figured out the answer of a question that I've been desperately searched for years.  In the article, they've made clear that creativity, in fact, can be taught  and the main idea of interchangeability between divergent thinking and convergent thinking playing a key role in creative thinking.  The story that amazed me the most from the article was the Donald Treffinger's fact-finding, which was about the fifth graders finding a solution about the ways to reduce the noise in the library of their school.  In my opinion, I think that this example showed us the model of education for teaching creativity and as a result of the project, the kids used convergent and divergent thinking and came to a great solution.

After learning about the creativity and the fact that it can be taught, I've realized few things that I didn't have a chance to think specifically about before; the view that I see a certain thing might not be what others might see and that it is really important for me to understand those things, but at the same time, it is more important for me to have the ability to use that knowledge in a real life.  Once again, I think that this article truly helped me with capturing the important thought that I've had for years.